At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings ...

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After firing 200 first-year employees this weekend, FEMA was directed "to make a list" of anyone who worked on climate or ...

Bird flu headlines include three new human cases, millions of dead birds in poultry flocks and new personnel moves from the ...

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s changes at the agency, which was ...

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

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

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in ...