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The Biden administration will by 2026 require that all publicly funded work be deposited in designated repositories immediately on publication.

The announcement confirms earlier reports that Bertagnolli will become the first woman to lead the National Cancer Institute since its founding in 1937.

If the Senate confirms her appointment, Arati Prabhakar will become the first woman, person of color, and immigrant to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

More than a dozen current and former members of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have shared details of alleged mistreatment, prompting President Biden’s top scientist to issue a formal apology.

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

An outspoken critic of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, Happer is returning to academia after a year in his White House role.

The president wants to terminate at least a third of all federal advisory committees by the end of September.

The National Science and Technology Council will bring together agency leaders to “focus on improving the safety, integrity, and productivity of research settings.”

A vice president of Rockefeller University for more than 20 years, Nichols also advised the White House, the NIH, and other groups.

Fall served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Barack Obama.

The position was eliminated the same week a new Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sara Brenner discusses why she took a break from academia to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, and what she hopes to accomplish there.

Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS, discusses what’s changed as a result of the March for Science—and what hasn’t.

The herbal supplement, deemed an opioid by the FDA, was recently linked to a Salmonella outbreak in 20 states. 

Funds for the NIH and NSF would stay flat, while some agencies, including the FDA and NASA, would see increases.

Some researchers are at risk of job loss and even deportation if Trump decides to end a program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children to obtain work permits. 

Only 12 positions out of 44 have received nominations, and half of Trump’s nominees have strong ties to the industries they would oversee, a new report shows.

In a memo to federal agencies, the administration highlights defense and security, leaves off Earth and climate science, and limits the scope of basic research.

Heads of academia and industry mingled with the vice president and the secretary of Health and Human Services at a biotech summit.