American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Neurobiologist Wins Prize for Charting Labyrinth of the Brain’s Fatty Building Blocks

Gioele La Manno won the 2026 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for innovative experiments that show lipids are far ...
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L’Oréal Funds Research and Mentoring Award for Five Women Scientists

The L’Oréal USA For Women in Science program, a partnership between L'Oréal USA and the American Association for the ...
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50th Annual AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum

The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum will be celebrating the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program’s 50th Anniversary this year. In capturing the spirit of a program that has been an observer and ...
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Policymaker science briefings

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues (AAAS EPI Center) hosts online briefings to bring trusted sources of scientific evidence to ...
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AAAS Comment on OMB Proposed Rule

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 ...
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AAAS Statement on OMB Rule Politicizing Federal Grantmaking

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 ...
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AAAS CEO Statement on Proposed FY26 Federal Science Budgets

If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands ...
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Golden Goose Award Honors Federally Funded Breakthroughs in Cancer Treatment, Disaster Response, and Everyday Physics

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Golden Goose Award, which recognizes unexpected, seemingly odd federally funded research that ultimately leads to transformative breakthroughs for science and society, has ...
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Research on R&D Funding: The Different Functions of Public and Private R&D

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 ...
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The growing demand for data centers in the U.S.

Greater computing power, more information consumption, and the rise of generative artificial intelligence means that the U.S. is facing a rapid increase in data generation. To meet those demands, data ...
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Babies’ Brains Are Primed for Their Native Language Before Birth

Human babies pick up language at an exceptional pace during their first year of life, but it has mostly been a mystery whether exposure to language before birth primes their brains to acquire a ...