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Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.

A review by the US Office of Inspector General found that only about half of the scientists running clinical trials funded by the NIH in 2019 and 2020 appropriately recorded their findings in a federal database, as is legally required.

A review of more than two decades of data finds racial disparities in the success rate of National Science Foundation grant proposals.

Researchfish is a platform commonly used to track the status of grants and the impacts of research. When academics were critical of the company online, Researchfish shared these comments with the largest funding agency in the UK, and the scientists’ comments were sometimes shared with their employers.

Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

After refusing to pay the ransom demanded by those behind a cyberattack, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has been out of action since February 8.

It’s unclear how the order, which charges academic institutions to follow existing rules regarding the First Amendment, will be implemented and enforced.

The agency plans to ease restrictions on grants to a narrowly defined group of early- and mid-career researchers.