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20, 2025, that it plans to stop releasing food insecurity data. The federal government has tracked and analyzed this data for the past three decades, but it plans to stop after publishing statistics ...

Chalkbeat reports NAEP scores show major declines in 12th-grade math and reading, indicating fewer students are college-ready.

The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental processes in chemistry. It is evident in everything from eyesight to energy storage to rocket fuel—and ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies. By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington ...

Falling public participation in surveys and trust in government have plagued the U.S. Census Bureau for decades. And some of the agency's current and former workers say there's a new complication to ...

Discover what data science is, its benefits, techniques, and real-world use cases in this comprehensive guide. Data science merges statistics, science, computing, machine learning, and other domain ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...