The country’s first line of defense against public-health threats has been spared by DOGE—for now.

The National Institutes of Health, headquartered in Bethesda, has lost more than 1,000 employees in another round of federal worker firings. Similar to other federal layoffs the nation has seen in ...

An analysis by Adam Bonica, a political scientist at Stanford University, presents compelling evidence that U.S. federal ...

Approximately 70,000 Montgomery County residents are part of the federal workforce. Some have lost their jobs under Trump ...

Many probationary employees targeted in latest Trump cuts across agencies had excellent ratings; legal challenges are ...

The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive ...

Over the past week, thousands of employees have been fired across multiple US regulatory and science funding agencies. The ...

With federal support, universities produce world-changing discoveries and the next generation of exquisitely well-trained ...

The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...

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.