Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that in "20 years' time" the effects of research funding cuts could be deep.

Throughout 2025, the science establishment has warned that the Trump administration poses a lethal threat to “American science expertise as we know it.” The alarums have been overwrought and ...

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns the US risks losing its edge to China in AI development. He emphasizes that slashing funding ...

Fukuoaka's osmotic power plant is supplied by local desalination facilities and uses a natural process to generate modest amounts of power.

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of ...

The Nobel Prize winner engaged in research once considered dodgy or even dangerous, and he said he struggled to gain support ...