Despite President Trump's efforts to deeply cut science funding from the federal budget in 2026, Congress quietly restored much of the funding to previous levels in recent weeks.

US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.

About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of ...

2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across... Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean ...

Federal funding for scientific research is crucial for innovation and has supported major breakthroughs in Tennessee. Research at institutions like Vanderbilt and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA avoided major funding cuts through a spending package approved by Congress this month and signed by President Donald Trump on ...

Federally funded science is critical to discovering new treatments for disease. Just ask Melvin Mann, who was a 37-year-old Army major when doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive and deadly blood ...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. The policy prevents ...

Melinda Holland started last year with high hopes for her business. Instead, 2025 ended with the company’s first layoffs in 40 years. That’s due largely to the policies of one man: President Donald ...

The fight over NASA science funding has swung from existential alarm to cautious optimism in a matter of months. What once looked like a near-death experience for some of the agency’s most important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Omar Yaghi of UC Berkeley was among five UC researchers honored with Nobel prizes this year. (Justin Sullivan / Getty ...