In a report released by AAAS, universities and the FBI explore ways to ease the fiscal and administrative burdens of campus labs as they comply with new biosecurity recommendations.

The White House recognized Virginia Stern, founder of the AAAS Entry Point! program, for four decades’ of work to increase opportunities for science students with disabilities.

The answer may lie, in part, in voters’ psychological and biological tendencies that researchers are starting to understand, speakers said at the AAAS Forum on S&T Policy.

Speaking at the AAAS Forum on S&T Policy, the influential GOP congressman pointed to bipartisan support for research. But, he says, deficits will require compromise.

Technology creates wealth, but it has not increased the percentage of working-age people with jobs, while “toxic thinking” hinders innovation, speakers said at the annual AAAS Forum.

Based on a study of Greenland’s major glaciers, researchers say seas could rise significantly over the next century, but probably not by 2 meters as projected in some earlier studies.

What do you think the scientists who explored the amazing caves in these pictures were looking for? Bats? Skeletons? Pirate treasure? Actually, it was the stalagmites that they were after, because these spiky formations contain important chemical clues to ancient climate.

A shrubby invasion of junipers poses a significant threat to the ecosystems of the Great Plains, scientists said at the AAAS Southwestern/Rocky Mountain Division meeting.

U.S. researchers who have made recent science diplomacy visits to Cuba see strong reasons to pursue joint work on oceans, weather, malaria, and other areas.

A bipartisan team of lawmakers, backed by science, business, and education leaders—including AAAS— launched a new award to herald the important contributions of basic scientific research.

A Rice University class that inspired a infant rehydration device and a salad-spinner centrifuge, among other inventions, is the winner of Science’s Inquiry-Based Instruction Prize.

Despite a tough economic outlook, President Obama remains committed to science and science education, top adviser John P. Holdren said at the AAAS Forum on S&T Policy.

Organisms, including the octopus, face security challenges in nature, and humans have a lot to learn from their responses to those challenges, ecologist Rafe Sagarin said at a AAAS event.

DNA recovered from the remains of four Stone Age humans excavated in Sweden is helping scientists understand how agriculture spread throughout Europe some 5000 years ago.

One of the keys to aging in an emotionally healthy way is to let go of regrets about missed opportunities, a new brain imaging study of young and older adults suggests.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ FY2013 budget, though unlikely to gain Senate approval, sets a baseline for deep cuts to appropriations for energy and other non-defense federal R&D.

President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget includes modest increases for some R&D agencies, but a AAAS analysis suggests that significant uncertainty about the deficit could affect funding levels.

Young researchers presented their work to an international, multidisciplinary audience and received welcome new insights at the STGlobal Consortium’s annual conference.

New research with rats and human volunteers suggests a strategy to help ex-drug addicts avoid cravings, using a process called “extinction” to modify memories of past drug use.

Baboons can't read, but they can learn to tell the difference between real printed words (like KITE) and nonsense words (like ZEVS), scientists say.

Middle and high school teachers can test their students’ science knowledge and compare their scores to others nationwide using a new module at AAAS Project 2061’s assessment Web site.

Federal R&D spending has spurred new technologies, new products, and economic growth, experts said at Capitol Hill discussions co-sponsored by AAAS.

Researchers have identified a region on the chromosome of a malaria parasite that helps explain how the parasite became resistant to first-line antimalarial drugs in Southeast Asia.

Researchers, Christian leaders, and educators worked to build understanding and a sustainable dialogue at the AAAS Southwest and Rocky Mountain Division meeting in Tulsa.

Top U.S. and foreign science diplomacy experts gathered at AAAS to evaluate the evolution of science diplomacy—and the steps needed to make the growth sustainable.

AAAS’s popular “Meet the Scientists!” stage show joins more than 3000 interactive science activities at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, held 28-29 April in Washington, D.C.

In two courses honored by the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction, students sequence DNA from mountaintop microbes and analyze mutations in Salmonella bacteria.