Presidential science advisor argues against draft legislation that would change how the National Science Foundation judges grant proposals.
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In a recent speech, the President defended spending on science and the peer-review process.
The National Research Council of Romania is looking to replace the 19 members that resigned last week in protest of retroactive budget cuts to existing grants.
A cancer researcher found guilty of misconduct has reached a settlement with the ORI that allows him to apply for federal research funding.
Starting in 2014, the federally funded initiative will seek to develop new technologies capable of mapping the activity in the human brain.
Federal science agencies get some relief from the harsh cuts to their 2013 budgets instituted by the recent sequester.
The President wants to devote $2 billion to research that might wean America off of oil.
As US policymakers debate federal budget cuts, global health science hangs in the balance.
Agencies like the NSF and NIH are losing around 5 percent of their yearly budgets.
A new project to map the activity of the human brain could receive more than $3 billion dollars in federal funds in President Obama’s upcoming budget proposal.
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