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The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.
Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.
A. Hope Jahren on women, research, and life in the lab.
If Donald Trump were to trigger a crisis in Western democracy, scientists would need to look at their part in its downfall, says Colin Macilwain.
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.
The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.
Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.
Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.
NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.
Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.
Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.
"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
