Explore Nature’s coverage of the Trump administration and its impact on science globally.
15 May 2026
Eight of the top ten officials at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office.
15 May 2026
The Trump administration has spent months investigating the laboratory after a Chinese postdoc was charged with smuggling biological material into the country.
14 May 2026
Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.
8 May 2026
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
8 May 2026
The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread fear and uncertainty.
8 May 2026
The Make America Healthy Again movement asserts that over-prescription of drugs for mental-health conditions is rife in the United States.
5 May 2026
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
30 April 2026
A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20%.
26 April 2026
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
23 April 2026
The National Science Foundation is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as the biological and social sciences.