Jan Elaine Soriano asked a question that researchers had struggled to answer for decades: What if the nervous system could be ...

When Sergey Stavisky first started thinking about brain-computer interfaces (BCI) as an undergraduate at Brown University, he was motivated by three factors. “I liked building things,” he recalled, ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science submitted a public comment in the Federal Register on July 13, 2026, to the White House Office of Management and Budget regarding the proposed ...

More than 150 years ago, America faced a challenge that feels surprisingly familiar today. The nation’s largest workforce sector — agriculture — was at a crossroads and needed to modernize as ...

The U.S. has officially lost the first-place ranking across all metrics. This means that in terms of dollars, people, papers, and patents, China is now the dominant global power in R&D. This report ...

Americans deserve a government that funds the best ideas and the strongest science. For a century, American science has yielded unexpected breakthroughs and formed the basis of trillion-dollar ...

The dismissal of the National Science Board is the latest in a string of erratic decisions that are destabilizing not only the National Science Foundation, but all of American science. Whatever the ...

Once again, we urge lawmakers to deny the steep cuts proposed to federal R&D funding in the Administration’s Budget Request for fiscal year 2027. Thanks to bipartisan support, Congress did its job and ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced the 2026 winners of eight awards that recognize scientists, engineers, innovators and public servants for their contributions to ...

With all twelve conferenced appropriations bills released, and eleven of them now signed into law (six at time of writing, and the numbers remained the same), this report aims to indicate the impact ...

The 2025 AAAS Making & Innovation Showcase drew more than 100 participants from 19 teams representing 14 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, but just a few of the innovations presented were ...

As cuts to federal R&D are proposed by the new administration alongside calls for the U.S. to remain an R&D superpower on the global stage, 1 there have been suggestions that other science and ...