Policy

A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

A new analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies—and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.

A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20 percent.

Roughly seven in 10 people still trust vaccine researchers, a new poll finds. The number is in line with trust for other scientists

Members of the National Science Board, which the U.S. Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination

The White House has nominated Erica Schwartz to replace NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as CDC chief. Bhattacharya has been leading the CDC on an acting basis since February, after the public health agency’s director was fired in 2025

China is working toward its own moon landing. Could it put astronauts on the moon before NASA’s Artemis program does?

Autism researchers are working to counter a federal autism advisory panel that they say has vaccine skeptic members and a “striking absence of scientific expertise”

Once unfathomable, the milestone of a single company having 10,000 satellites operating overhead signals that the era of mega constellations is here to stay

China and the U.S. are in a high-stakes race to build permanent lunar outposts. Can both nations coexist on the moon?

Speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., criticized the politicization of science and cuts to research that serves the public