Early career researchers face unique challenges when a senior collaborator becomes embroiled in allegations of scientific malpractice.

Rick Bright will no longer head the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and will instead work at the National Institutes of Health on diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

President Donald Trump claims the World Health Organization failed to investigate early reports of the coronavirus, while public health experts argue that stripping the agency of its funding endangers us all.

The US Department of Education is looking into allegations that the institutions failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts from other countries.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

A new report from the National Science Board identifies changes in the US’s global R&D investment and output, as well as in the country’s science and engineering workforce in recent years.

More than five years after his arrest, Li Ning of China Agricultural University is convicted of stealing nearly $5 million of grant money.

The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

A total of more than $1 billion will go to institutions including the Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, and branches of the University of California.