culture, funding

US salaries are starting to recover after last year’s survey recorded the first-ever drop.

Congress has passed a spending bill that spares some of the country’s biggest science agencies from the worst of the deficit-reduction measures.

A draft 2012 spending bill would cut the maximum salary paid to biomedical scientists by grants from NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies.

As Congress prepares a strategy to trim the national deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, legislators suggest cuts to government research.

The success rate of the government agency's grant applications has hit an all-time low.

Investing more federal dollars in life science research may save the US economy.

Government and industry are the biggest funders of research, basic and otherwise. Here is how science funding in the US and European Union has shaped up in the past two and a half decades. 

History repeats itself, and so do trends in research funding.

The funding agency is taking strides to avoid losing parents from the scientific workforce.

A 2012 spending bill, approved by a Senate panel yesterday, would trim the NIH budget by $190 million.

Tips for creating a science video or website.

America's key federal biomedical research agency officially releases its new policy on conflicts of interest.

The National Academy of Sciences will propose a plan for cutting back costs at state universities.

UK’s Research Councils may fund fewer new doctoral students in the upcoming academic year.

A watchdog group urges the US government to enact guidelines that would require federally-funded researchers to publically disclose financial interests.

A new study finds that more than two thirds of Americans approve of the use of stem cells in research aiming to cure serious diseases.

Today is your last chance to participate in our 2011 survey of life science salaries.

The path to eradicating malaria in Africa involves much more than just a vaccine.

A major international funder of research and public health efforts on debilitating infectious diseases has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money to China amidst questions about the country's use of the funds. 

By forging new relationships and finding novel uses for existing technologies, this year’s top companies are employing creative ways to advance their science.