The information gathered in long-term studies helps scientists see how climate change is affecting our planet, yet money often goes to shorter-term projects.
Imaging a supermassive black hole takes a massive amount of funding.
A new report finds that funding gaps between white and non-white districts persist across all poverty levels.
What the agency actually wants is the funding to detain more people than ever before.
User fees and other pay-to-play policies are a regressive scheme that won't fix our public lands. We should resist them.
Kansas must re-visit its state school funding system. What about the rest of the country?
Basic research can seem wasteful, but politicians should resist the temptation to set science’s priorities.
This list includes studies cited in our pages that received funding from a source other than the researchers’ home institutions. Only principal or corresponding authors are listed.
Even a very loose network of candidates, activists, donors, and interest groups can exert a powerful influence over elections.
The agency has pushed back indefinitely a hearing on new regulations for social welfare non-profits that spend money on politics.
This list includes studies cited in our pages that received funding from a source other than the researchers’ home institutions. Only principal or corresponding authors are listed.
Sexuality is a fundamental component of the human experience, and it's one we need to have a better understanding of.
Duck penis expert Patricia Brennan offers a catalog of all the amazing things that would not exist without the pursuit of "oddball" biological research.
The names and numbers behind the research in the January/February 2014 print issue of Pacific Standard.
The names and numbers behind the research in the November/December 2013 issue of Pacific Standard.
A report from The Sentencing Project argues that a primary driver for privatizing corrections isn’t really paying off.
Regarding the crisis in American research universities, Louisiana State University System President John V. Lombardi argues that when athletics are on the cutting block, he'll see that as a sign of disaster.
A new report on funding renewable energy projects offers a primer on how policy decisions are best engineered to boost the industry.
In a Q&A session, computer scientist Francine Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explains how funding decisions made in Washington help or hinder innovation at universities.
High-flying professor Tatsuya Suda's double-billing antics highlight the loose controls on the off-campus earnings of research university academics.
Tired of the old system of state and institutional funding, many wanting to push a creative project or a pet cause are turning to crowdfunding.
In a Q&A, historian Robert M. Berdahl, president of the Association of American Universities, (since retired) describes how fiscal pressures at the state level undermine research universities already battered by the recession.