Policy

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

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil

President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric vehicle, solar, battery and wind industries particularly hard

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds. Instead, he is stocking the leadership of federal agencies with technologists and loyalists

A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided

The Trump administration has ordered a halt to “all federal financial assistance,” covering areas from domestic infrastructure and energy projects to foreign aid

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health and appears to have erased diversity programming pages at the agency’s website