KUNM

Some researchers say restored federal funding is too little, too late

The Trump administration restored some of the billions of dollars previously frozen or withheld from research institutions and agencies. Some researchers say it's too late to save their work.
FierceBiotech

How Some Researchers Are Managing Journal Access Costs In Lean Times

When bioinformatician Dan Morgan finished his Ph.D. program and joined a small startup, he was surprised to find that leaving university meant leaving something else behind—easy access to ...
STAT

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind

MONTPELLIER, France — When Pleuni Pennings and her family came to this university town in the south of France at the beginning of the year, the plan was to stay a few months for a sabbatical of sorts ...
Los Angeles Times

Why scientists say we are fighting H5N1 bird flu with one hand tied behind our backs

Gain-of-function research became controversial during the COVID-19 pandemic. But without it, “we’re just flying in the dark” when it comes to H5N1, said Felicia Goodrum, a molecular virologist at the ...
STAT

New HHS rules can’t address the primary reason for research misconduct

Jensen is founder and CEO of Etalia, a health research communications and training firm. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services published new policies on research misconduct, which ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Year That Changed Research

Ask just about any federally funded researcher to describe 2025, and they use words like chaotic, demoralizing, confusing, destabilizing and transformational. “It’s been a very destabilizing year ...
The Boston Globe

Why is it so cold? Some researchers say there may be a surprising culprit: climate change.

As climate change reshapes winter in New England, the brutal winds and bitter cold of December felt like a throwback to seasons past. Scientists say these bone-chilling days do not mean that climate ...
The Washington Post

As Trump cuts science budgets, some researchers look abroad

Kartik Sheth, 53, is an astrophysicist and, until a few weeks ago, was the associate chief scientist at NASA. On March 10, he got an unexpected email: “I regret to ...
WHYY

For decades, scientists have used the mouse forced swim test to study depression. Now some are reconsidering it

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...
Nature

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?

On 16 April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr held a press conference about rising diagnoses of autism. The US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary pointed to new data showing that autism prevalence in the ...
NPR

Researchers are now putting AI into robots to do physical tasks

Why can ChatGPT help you write an essay but can't fold your laundry? Some researchers are working on software that would allow robots to understand and execute commands. Artificial intelligence can ...