I have been a research scientist, a professor and research director for over 40 years. Among all the unscientific and unhealthy changes that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The symbiotic relationship between the federal government and our universities — one that has delivered so much for America, ...

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the ...

Mr. Greenblatt is a professor of the humanities at Harvard. The Trump administration’s assault on America’s universities by cutting billions of dollars of federal support for scientific and medical ...

Joshua Winowiecki does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.

Frank G. Pocino suggests China’s authoritarian system renders its universities uncompetitive with those in the U.S. (Letters, “Has Donald Trump Done Higher Ed a Favor?,” May 29). Yet the scientific ...