A researcher tries and fails to garner support for petitions to increase the National Institutes of Health’s budget as sequestration looms.
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Biomedical groups propose a simplified system for the disclosure of potential conflicts of interests.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
NIH Director Francis Collins touts the project to map neural connections in the human brain as recording the mind’s “symphony.”
Biotech, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies have spent a record-breaking amount this election—nearly $200 million.
Retracting a paper from the scientific literature can lead to fewer citations for related studies.
Research spending dropped $4 billion dollars in 2011, and could continue to drop, according to a new report.
The United States government is concerned over the declining levels of state funding for public research universities, citing a threat to overall economic health.
Many Americans who are likely to vote in upcoming elections are not in favor of across-the-board cuts to non-discretionary funding.
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