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Proposal launches process for agreeing next budget, as 2024 NSF deal is finally signed off
Chemical and drug companies say US regulations are stifling materials and pharmaceuticals research
This week: medical patent concerns, environment agency recruitment and NIH success rates
Funding for agencies including National Science Foundation among six bills in bipartisan deal
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This week: rare disease innovation, research into privacy and a new Nasa facility
House education committee chair vows to hold universities to account in light of student testimony
This week: humanities outreach, health research data and a sideways landing on the moon
Senate committee on health also seeks clarity over data used for research
Taskforce will produce report on risks and actions needed to advance AI
This week: student-enrollment extensions, powering marine sensors and studying living samples
US Department of Education and agencies including Nasa set out accomplishments and aims
Speakers at American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting criticise reliance on anecdote
This week: reducing methane emissions, alternatives to animal research and protecting the chemicals industry
National Semiconductor Technology Center is “essential to speeding up R&D”, says science chief
Jet Propulsion Laboratory blames 63 per cent budget cut for “painful but necessary adjustments”
This week: R&D tax rules, moon science and an investigation into student-aid provision
Congressional leaders ask US Office of Science and Technology Policy to explain its actions
Such programmes “work against diversity”, senator Bill Cassidy claims
National Science Foundation leads shared infrastructure effort with other federal agencies and companies
This week: concerns about student aid, medicines pricing and the end of a Martian era
House science committee members probe handling of request for chemical safety review
This week: a showdown on drug prices, Covid-19 research and averting a federal shutdown
Move comes as bill to simplify repayment while cutting student support is introduced by Republican
Agency’s space technology division gains new leader, while its awards scheme boosts small companies
This week: allocating humanities grants, preventing a federal shutdown and providing space services
Union of Concerned Scientists calls for “massive” investments in climate resilience
US National Science Foundation teams up with five philanthropic partners on $16 million initiative
This week: a federal funding deal, revamping NSF IT and Nasa awards for early-stage ideas
Managers can use Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health posts to solve problems, director says
Private flight was intended to provide US with first moon landing in half a century
This week: remembering a former science chair and plans to promote diversity in technology
Claudine Gay becomes second university president to resign after controversy over House of Representatives evidence
US national academies report calls for interdisciplinary investment in development of simulation technologies
Political leaders question methods of new Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute
Funding, health leadership and more—the biggest research policy news from the US this year
This week: student debt forgiven, a union at the NIH and more
Research at risk if ‘march-in’ rights take patents on pharmaceuticals away, say US industry groups