The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of ...

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin – or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been known – is surging. One study found that rates of psilocybin use increased ...

The Trump administration has proposed and implemented substantial cuts to scientific research funding, which are expected to impact scientific progress profoundly. The administration has proposed ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Staff expressed frustration with how the transfers are being handled and perceive them as yet another measure to traumatize ...

Basic scientific research is a key contributor to economic productivity. Is science running out of steam? A growing body of research suggests that disruptive breakthroughs—the kind that fundamentally ...

For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science ...

Colleges and universities are digging into their own pockets to temporarily support graduate students and faculty in limbo after the Trump administration’s sudden cancellation—and stalled review—of ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

Something extraordinary has been unfolding in the world of science. Quietly, methodically, and with a speed that has caught ...

Science of Science Funding is an NBER initiative, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which seeks to improve understanding of effective methods of supporting scientific research. Its goal is ...