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When the Scripps Institution of Oceanography threw itself a 100th birthday bash last September, everyone from the Queen of England to Hollywood legend Paul Newman sent best wishes to one [...]

The bark proved worse than the bite. After months of warning that government research spending could become a casualty of the war against terrorism, the Bush Administration this week unveiled [...]

U.S. biomedical research spending appears headed for another big boost. Congress last week took the first step toward finalizing a 2002 budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) when [...]

Twenty years ago, Congress slipped into a budget bill a small sum of money for research buildings at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in New [...]

U.S. scientists anxious about next year's federal research budget got some good news last week. Several congressional panels approved preliminary 2002 spending bills that restore research programs targeted for cuts [...]

Why won't a $2.8 billion increase buy any more individual grants next year? The answer is keeping researchers and NIH officials up at night For years the U.S. biomedical community [...]

The Bush Administration this week tried to prove Albert Einstein's maxim that mathematics isn't necessarily reality. While officials talked up the president's 2002 budget request--the details of which were released [...]

Scientists are happy about another huge proposed boost for NIH, but they say there's more to science than biomedical research Don't get mad, get moving. That seems to be the [...]

Sometimes good just isn't good enough. President George W. Bush said last week that he will request a record $2.8 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in [...]

The Bush Administration's first budget request to Congress may leave many scientists feeling a little flat. White House officials will release a preliminary spending proposal next week for the 2002 [...]

Science won record increases last year, but a new president, a slowing economy, and stiff competition could make an encore difficult Science funding advocates are still breathless from the success [...]

Bill Clinton came to the White House with a scant track record in science. But after taking some early swipes at research projects, he's going out to applause For some [...]

In the end, the wine proved stronger than the whining. Last week, the U.S. Congress approved a 14.2% increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to a record $20.3 [...]

Moore's Law now applies to philanthropy as well as computing power. Last week, computer industry titan Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty, announced that they are creating a $5-billion-plus foundation [...]

Science has emerged a winner in this year's struggle over the Department of Energy's (DOE's) budget, erasing fears earlier this summer of severe cuts in several high-profile programs. Congress this [...]

The desert tortoise that plods across California's rugged drylands may be slow, but it will keep some fast company in next year's defense budget. The $289 billion measure, which President [...]

The National Ignition Facility is supposed to allow weapons makers to preserve the nuclear arsenal--and do nifty fusion science, too. But a new report that examines its troubled past also [...]

Scientists around the world take on a grand challenge to dramatize the need for more marine research J. Frederick Grassle believes in the power of numbers. A marine biologist at [...]

The world's largest laser project will end up costing almost twice as much as originally estimated. Last week, Department of Energy (DOE) officials publicly outlined several options for rescuing the [...]

Challenged by a White House committee to change its ways, the National Science Foundation is looking for far-out ideas in computer science 'Excellent,' raved one reviewer about a preproposal from [...]

The Department of Energy (DOE) is tightening its oversight of the world's largest laser project, which is years behind schedule and at least $300 million over budget. Energy Secretary Bill [...]

Shoot for the Stars Canadian astronomers will unveil an ambitious plan later this month for keeping their country at the forefront of exploration. But observers predict they face an uphill [...]

After raising some hackles early on, Congress wound up delivering a hefty increase in federal R&D spending. But some worry that NIH's increases are skewing the balance Like a television [...]

In an encore performance that is drawing rave reviews from biomedical researchers, Congress handed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) another record budget increase. The $17.9 billion budget passed by [...]

If you don't like the way an institution is run, go after its budget. Congress has just applied that logic to a special fund controlled by the directors of the [...]

Sometimes it pays to be patient. After months of delays that had made science lobbyists anxious, House and Senate spending committees this week were expected to approve hefty increases in [...]

The managers of a giant laser project have proposed drastically shrinking the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to curb rising costs, a step that could reduce its chances of achieving an [...]

A full-court press by Administration officials and scientific groups to fend off attacks on science funding was no match for congressional budget realities last week. The House of Representatives passed [...]

An already uncertain year for science funding got even more complicated last week. In a last-minute flurry of votes before their summer recess, House and Senate lawmakers passed spending and [...]

Funding for defense-related research has languished since the Cold War, even as some civilian research budgets have spurted ahead. Now Congress is moving to slow the trend, proposing to erase [...]

Neutron scientists are breathing a bit easier after their flagship U.S. construction project, the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), walked a political tightrope last week in Congress--and survived. The key vote [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA--The field of computing is chock-full of acronyms, from RAM to Y2K. Last weekend the Clinton Administration coined another one: [IT.sup.2], to describe its plan to boost basic research [...]

Harvard University has embarked on a science spending spree intended to keep it at the forefront of several hot areas of academic research. Officials today announced plans to spend up [...]

Take shelter, a political nuclear war is about to resume. An increasingly fiery debate over proposed new funding for U.S. nuclear weapons research and testing is expected to heat up [...]

Like the mythical phoenix, a once-dead fusion energy project this week rose from the ashes to become the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) highest scientific priority. The $5 billion International [...]

The biodefense bandwagon is rolling. The U.S. government last week awarded eight lead institutions grants totaling $350 million over the next 5 years to establish collaborative research centers that will [...]

On their recent dash to Baghdad, U.S. military forces were aided by some of the Pentagon's most advanced gear, including powerful explosives and sophisticated sensors developed by scientists and engineers [...]

Let the spending begin. After a nearly 5-month delay, the U.S. Congress last week finished work on the 2003 federal budget. The $397 billion package holds some good news for [...]

Can science make us more secure? The Bush Administration is counting on it. The $2.23 trillion 2004 budget request that President George W. Bush sent Congress this week includes hefty [...]

The U.S. economics lump has hit the lab bench. After enjoying years of soaring research spending fueled in part by an economic boom, some life scientists are being told to [...]

Congress has ordered the U.S. Army to be all that it can be to promising high-tech start-up companies. Lawmakers have given the Army $25 million to establish an independent venture [...]

All's well that ends well. This year's bumpy budget-making journey ended in a relatively smooth landing late last month with a record raise for U.S. biomedical science and increases for [...]

Immunologist Pam Baker is getting the backup she needs. As a professor at Bates College, a small undergraduate institution in Lewiston, Maine, Baker doesn't have easy access to the advanced [...]

It could have been worse. The new science budget for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) isn't flat, as the Bush Administration had requested. But Congress has spent much of [...]

Two years ago, Stanford University postdoctoral researcher Michael Vagell asked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a grant to study how hormones affect the brain. Like about 70% of [...]

Congress last week sent a mostly upbeat message to researchers that it is ready to give basic science a fresh infusion of cash for the 1999 fiscal year, which officially [...]

Even as Arden Bement heads to the National Science Foundation (NSF) as acting director, he's vowing to help shepherd his current agency through one of its worst budget crises in [...]

The 21st Century Nanotech Research and Development Act (S. 189) authorizes the government to spend $3.7 billion over the next 4 years on the science of the very small. Universities [...]

A $27 billion annual spending bill will give the Department of Energy's science programs a 5.8% boost to $3.5 billion. Earmarks absorb much of the increase, however, leaving many research [...]

The United States should take the lead in launching a new era of global ocean exploration, argues a report * from a National Academy of Sciences committee. But with a [...]