Reid was elected a AAAS Fellow in 2017. In 2024 she became a Section Leader to help people voice their support for science, ...

A recent Section U webinar, held in December 2024, featured Maria Terres, Ph.D., a senior staff data scientist from autonomous car company Waymo. Statistics comes into play during the analysis of data ...

If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our ...

In the hunt for a remedy, when the baton is passed from dedicated academic scientists to an innovative company to trusted community advocates, outcomes for society can be especially powerful. Today, ...

Make no mistake, if Congress enacts the President’s skinny budget, the consequences for the future of our nation would be catastrophic. The United States will no longer be in the global race for R&D ...

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 ...

Seventeen early-career scientists will translate complex research into compelling stories for the public as 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellows this summer. Fellows are placed at media outlets across the ...

Science is US, a foundation-supported initiative housed within the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published a new study, Science at Work: The People and Industries Powering ...

Washington, D.C.: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is delighted to announce the largest transformational gift in AAAS’s history, the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the ...

Washington, D.C. — The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, announces the 2024 ...

Estimated federal research and development (R&D) is the fraction of an agency’s funding that is labeled as specifically for the performance of basic and applied research, development, or the purchase ...