The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as ...

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.

The Trump administration terminated the employment of “probationary” workers at the National Science Foundation.

The U.S. will need more than one million STEM workers in the next 10 years to stay competitive. Immigrants are critical to ...

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

Feb. 7, 2025 — While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study shows that -- after more than two decades -- biodiversity growth has stalled in ...

The letter from the federal government arrived in an email Thursday. It informed the Department of Agriculture worker that he ...

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across ...

By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and ...

His research and teaching draw on a synthesis of international relations, political economy, and the politics of money and ...

This article highlights standout studies and news articles over the last week on topics such as nutrition, aging and ...