The President's Budget Request (PBR) has been released, agencies have released their congressional budget justifications (CBJ), and details of the budget proposal are coming to light. This report aims ...

John Drazan discovered his passion for science on the basketball court, not the classroom. After getting pushed out of the ...

In response to member feedback, AAAS has created a new benefit to equip STEMM professionals with skills to engage with local ...

Once again, we urge lawmakers to deny the steep cuts proposed to federal R&D funding in the Administration’s Budget Request ...

For his work towards developing a novel cancer immunotherapy that turns tumors into their own vaccines, Fábio Rosa has ...

Courtney Schreiber has won the 2026 BioInnovation Institute & Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s ...

Welcome to the AAAS Federal R&D Budget Historical Dashboard, an interactive tool for exploring long-term federal funding trends within the context of the broader budget. The dashboard allows users to ...

Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, suffragist, and photographer. Nearly deaf for much of her life, Cannon is credited with the invention of the Harvard spectral classification system, which assigns ...

AAAS announces its 2025 class of Honorary Fellows, includes 449 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 AAAS disciplinary Sections.

The modern U.S. research enterprise has some of its roots in World War II, through the U.S. government's Office of Scientific Research and Development or OSRD. Quickly authorized by President Franklin ...

The U.S. remains the largest R&D spender but by the smallest margin since the mid-90s. It is 13th in government R&D intensity, fifth in private R&D intensity and 6th in basic science intensity. China ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced the 2024 winners of seven awards that recognize scientists, engineers, innovators and public servants for their contributions to ...