This post was updated July 31 at 10:25 p.m. The federal government is suspending research funding to UCLA, according to a ...

Despite the policy successes, the foundation’s National Science Board estimated in 2020 that full participation by underrepresented groups will not be reached until 2030: “the number of women must ...

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF’s mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across ...

Legislation approved on Thursday by the Senate Committee on Appropriations would preserve nearly all of the NSF’s funding.

Current and former employees at NSF, NASA, NIH, and the EPA have signed onto letters enumerating their concerns.

The National Science Foundation, established in 1950, finances much of the scientific research that takes place in the United States, ranging from astronomy and quantum computing to microbiology ...

The National Science Foundation is a $9 billion agency charged with advancing scientific discoveries, largely by evaluating the merit of grant requests and doling out dollars mostly to research ...

From Antarctic research stations to telescopes high in the Andes to research submarines miles below the waves — and in laboratories and classrooms across the United States — the footprint of ...

Attorney General Letitia James co-led a lawsuit with 15 other states to halt the administration from dismantling programs at the National Science Foundation, one of the largest supporters of ...

In 1950, Congress set up the US National Science Foundation to fund all basic science in the United States (except for life sciences, a role that the US National Institutes of Health would assume).

On May 2, 2025, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) issued a “Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate” (NSF 25-034) ...

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF's mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across all ...