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Foreign Students and Postdocs Worry About the Future

Foreign Students and Postdocs Worry About the Future

While Trump takes aim at immigration, foreign trainees consider taking their talents elsewhere

Rising to the Challenge as US States Turn the Screw on Science Education

Rising to the Challenge as US States Turn the Screw on Science Education

Researchers everywhere should pay more attention to how their subject is presented.

Trump’s New Travel Ban Still Sabotages Science and Tech

Trump’s New Travel Ban Still Sabotages Science and Tech

Its prospects for keeping dangerous people out are dubious at best. But would-be immigrants in science and tech will almost certainly be turned away.

U of California, Berkeley, to Delete Publicly Available Educational Content

U of California, Berkeley, to Delete Publicly Available Educational Content

Starting March 15, the university will begin removing more than 20,000 video and audio lectures from public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order.

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

How The Fallout From Trump's Travel Ban Is Reshaping Science

Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.

Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

Scientists Are Standing Up to Trump Because They've Always Stood Up to Bullshit

There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case.

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

Cutting Science Funding Means Sacrificing the US's Future

President Donald Trump plans to change to slash spending on basic science by 10.5 percent in 2018.

What Early-Career Researchers Can Do to Advocate for Science

What Early-Career Researchers Can Do to Advocate for Science

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community—and you can too.

Departing Senior NSF Manager Offers Hopeful Assessment of Agency’s Future

Departing Senior NSF Manager Offers Hopeful Assessment of Agency’s Future

Richard Buckius returns to Purdue “confident” of continued federal support for research

Two Top Chinese-American Scientists Have Dropped Their US Citizenship

Two Top Chinese-American Scientists Have Dropped Their US Citizenship

China gets bragging rights to two more internationally recognized researchers

Hundreds Rally for Science at Demonstration Near AAAS Meeting

Hundreds Rally for Science at Demonstration Near AAAS Meeting

Crowd troubled by direction of Trump administration.

Scientists Aren't Happy with Trump. So What Are They Going to Do About It?

Scientists Aren't Happy with Trump. So What Are They Going to Do About It?

"Donald Trump is going to be the gateway drug for scientists being engaged in policy."

Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data

Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data

Hackers are building up robust systems to monitor changes to government websites. And they’re keeping track of data that's already been removed.

From a Tweet, a March for Science Is Born

From a Tweet, a March for Science Is Born

It started with a tweet, but now it's an international movement. Spurred by concerns about the impact President Donald Trump's administration might have on research, the March for Science is "a call to support and safeguard the scientific community."