US research policy

The Trump administration’s proposals to eviscerate the NIH and NSF have been overturned in Congress after a year of cancelled programmes and legal wrangling. Yet as funding continues only to dribble out of downsized and politicised agencies, few believe that US science is out of the woods yet

Academics counting cost of Donald Trump’s threats to take over the territory say ‘the damage is done’ and impact on research will linger for years 

Highly restrictive policies introduced after launch of ChatGPT being eased in favour of more nuanced responses, finds study of thousands of course materials

Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study

Reviewer bias and higher teaching workloads for women may explain why they have to wait much longer for accept or reject decisions, say study authors

Lack of career rewards for impact and institutional focus on publication metrics highlighted in Sage survey

Bosnian-born president of University of Connecticut says her unusual academic career shows how US promotes outsiders like no other country

Even as the US shrinks and narrows trials, the need for this research continues. Other countries can and must step in, says Stephen Jane

Sethuraman Panchanathan says research funder and scientists must improve ‘storytelling’ as agency faces $5 billion cuts

Researchers replicate impact of Trump’s cuts on previous decades, identifying steep drop in medical innovations

Trump security crackdown risks undermining US collaboration, with China now said to be more concerned with protecting its own research than prying into others

US-based researchers have dominated the Nobel prizes, but more than one-third of them were born abroad, drawn by the US’ world-leading research ecosystem. But many Nobel laureates fear that Donald Trump’s assault on that ecosystem will choke off the flow of future prizes. Jack Grove reports