Senators raise concerns about how Eric Lander of the Broad Institute has handled equality issues.

Tying federal research funding to scientists’ efforts to inform and engage the public can help fix widespread indifference to science.

A new ruling removes the requirement that grants and proposals using the material receive approval from an ethical review board, reverting to the process in place before 2019.

These new initiatives would tackle problems relating to health and climate.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

A study finds improvement in the proportion of scientific projects that include both sexes, but analyzing results by sex is not routine.

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Constantine Stratakis, who was due to lead an institute at McGill University Health Centre, was the subject of eight equal employment opportunity complaints at his last job at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The sponsors of upwards of 1,000 clinical trials may be forced to publish data that have gone unpublished over a 10-year period.

Federal science agencies vary in their requirements. Here’s how researchers can follow the rules.

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.

The Department of Justice also released the names of two Chinese researchers who allegedly acted against US interests.

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

A working group has put forth suggestions for cracking down on misconduct, such as requiring grant applicants to disclose sexual harassment findings.

Many early-career clinical scientists receiving support through the NIH’s Loan Repayment Program have accepted disallowed industry funding, Science reveals.

Staff were told in August that the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s scientific director Antonello Bonci was leaving to pursue a new opportunity, with no mention of the complaints against him.

Nearly two dozen higher education groups warn the government to be cautious when advising US research universities to keep an eye on students and faculty with ties to certain Chinese institutions.

esearchers who failed to disclose affiliations and funding sources from other countries are under investigation, and some universities are letting them go discreetely and refunding grant money to the agency.