An ad from Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., highlights affordability challenges for healthcare. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. Republicans campaigning in swing districts are running ads about healthcare after facing criticism of the cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Credit: David Goddard/Getty Can commercial funding fill a £42 million (US$56 million) a year hole in the finances of some of the UK’s most iconic laboratories and science facilities? That is the challenge facing sites run by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the Diamond Light Source (the national synchrotron facility
Michael Kratsios, US President Donald Trump’s chief science adviser, released a report this week that reinvents how science is funded in the country. Credit: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Washington D.C. It was a big week for science in US President Donald Trump’s administration. On Tuesday, the president’s chief scientific adviser, Michael Kratsios, released a report
Every research program is a commitment to the future. However, scientists rarely examine the assumptions behind those bets. Decisions about subsidies, infrastructure, contracting, regulation, and training often assume that certain technologies will mature, specific skills will be needed, the public will accept the resulting innovations, and few risks will materialize. However, these assumptions are rarely
Valar Atomics, a startup that builds small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially factory-built miniaturized power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to three sources familiar with the company. The company, founded three years ago, is seeking
The U.S. National Science Foundation, one of the world’s largest funders of fundamental science, is expected to sharply reduce spending across most of its directorates.Credit: IB/Alamy Photography The US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to expropriate money from its core science programs to fund an initiative by the White House Office of Science and Technology