If allowed to stand, the states say, the agency’s new priorities would devastate scientific research at universities throughout the country and unseat the United States as a global leader in STEM.

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF's mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across all ...

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

F or most of the past century, the United States has been the global leader in scientific discovery. ... It wasn’t until the 1950 establishment of the National Science Foundation ...

Sixteen states, led by New York, are suing the Trump administration over significant funding cuts and program changes at the National Science Foundation. The lawsuit challenges the elimination of ...

This will ‘devastate scientific research’: 16 states sue the Trump administration over National Science Foundation directive Jackie Wattles, CNN Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM UTC ...

From Antarctic research stations to telescopes high in the Andes to research submarines miles below the waves — and in laboratories and classrooms across the United States — the footprint of ...

Established in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is widely recognized as a leading agency for promoting and funding scientific research and innovation in the United States.

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is joining 15 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop its attempts to cut National Science Foundation ...

One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science ...

Despite the CHIPS and Science Act’s authorization to double the National Science Foundation’s budget by 2027, Congress reduced the agency’s budget by 8 percent this year. Following contentious budget ...

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF's mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across all ...