Policy

Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous new arms race

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that references climate or diversity

The Department of Energy, Forest Service and Office of Personnel Management are among agencies that have begun firing staffers

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed secretary of health and human services

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act

Billions of dollars for rural electric cooperatives are stuck in limbo as the Department of Agriculture continues the Trump administration’s funding freeze, despite federal court orders

“Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific American

Mass layoffs at the U.S. climate and weather agency would have a ripple effect across the economy, say former NOAA officials

The Trump administration has halted funding for a $5-billion program that Congress created to help states build out their electric vehicle charging network

President Donald Trump’s purge of diversity initiatives has affected both federal agencies and the institutions they fund, including those that work with Indigenous communities

Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

A climate office at the Department of Health and Human Services has been shuttered, and its staff was placed on administrative leave