If the administration’s selection of Rep. Jim Bridenstine to lead NASA is confirmed, the congressman would be the first politician to head the agency.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
The administration’s top R&D priority areas are American military superiority, security, prosperity, energy dominance, and health.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Ensuring that data in the Earth and space sciences are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) lies at the heart of a new project funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.Read More »
Thirty-year-old Montreal Protocol has had a major side benefit of reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Funding through July 2021 supports a project in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences to promote gender equity and train scientists to recognize and counteract sexual harassment.Read More »
The White House is considering separating the usually merged roles of director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.Read More »
The deep seafloor could provide humans with supplies of valuable metals, but opinion is divided as to whether sustainable exploitation is possible and worth the ecological and economic risk.Read More »
