An extraordinary rupture in the governance of American science is prompting warnings that the Trump administration has moved beyond challenging scientific priorities and into dism ...

With Trump purging the National Science Board, and the NSF director seat vacant, scientists warn of a shift away from ...

Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President ...

Since 2009, American eighth graders have taken the National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Assessment to measure “their ability to engage in scientific inquiry and to conduct scientific ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the ...