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