Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This ...
written by former Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush, to describe the core rationales for using American taxpayer money to fund basic science. Under this model ...
The 80-year-old partnership between the federal government and research institutions has made the U.S. the leader in scientific innovation. But now a proposed funding cut threatens the arrangement.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy is also responsible for coordinating the government's large, decentralized research and development policy system. With dozens of participating agencies ...
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.