Research about how pollution regulations affect people’s health is relevant to policymakers, but the US National Institutes of Health is shifting away from funding such work.Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and legislators, according to internal
Randomizing parts of grant decision-making increases diversity and reduces costs, argue some researchers.Credit: Andrew Angelov/Alamy Rachel Heyard’s job was to find a signal in the noise, but the trouble was how often there wasn’t one. As a biostatistician in the data team at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern, Switzerland’s main public research
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed rising rents and low wages on Labor’s migration policies in a sweeping attack on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, as she accuses the government of planning to bring in an additional million migrants over the next four years. “Tony Burke isn’t cutting migration … Labor is lying again.
Researcher Laura Carter’s children look out at the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, before the family boards a flight for a research trip to Australia. A trip in November 2025 brought home just how complex my family life has become. For a moment, my husband and I were in the air at the same time, crossing
WASHINGTON — The Senate in an overnight vote Saturday approved a short-term measure to fund federal agencies into early December and avoid a potentially chaotic government shutdown during the middle of campaign season. The late-summer action on a funding fix is unusual. Normally, Congress waits until the final days or hours of a funding deadline
Whatnot, started in a Funko Pop-flooded rental house, is now a $20 billion company. The live commerce platform exclusively told Fortune it recently raised its $545 million Series G, almost doubling Whatnot’s valuation from $11.5 billion in its October 2025 round. It’s an unlikely story in all sorts of ways, from the tech giant’s previous