Politicization and tenure have corrupted the institution. We need an alternative.

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...

Federal research funding cuts threaten UC Davis discoveries in health, agriculture and technology that improve lives ...

Even if the cuts were reversed today, former OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar said the Trump administration’s “destruction” will ...

Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” ...

For example, the Nobel prize in economic science, awarded this week, underlined the importance of funding basic research.

The administration has sharply cut funding for U.S. scientific research and eliminated thousands of jobs. Here, scientists ...

Matt Valle, left, of the C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, plants seeds with greenhouse manager Eric Haddix in a UC Davis greenhouse. (UC Davis photo) While we’re enjoying the last days of ...

But all is not well between the labs and the Army's top leadership. This spring, during a monthly teleconference that linked the directors of the service's seven laboratories, the conversation turned ...

When SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, Stuart Schreiber banded together with a group of scientists to try to find a path out of the pandemic. They poured over papers and preprints, and ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of biochemistry ...