News & Updates

Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy...

Building on research reported last year, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have succeeded in identifying the neurons that secrete the substance responsible for the plaques that build up in the brains of...

A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth...

On Friday, President Trump released his fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request, once again seeking to restructure the federal bureaucracy and make steep cuts to education and research—proposals that were largely rejected or at least mitigated by Congress in...

While the situation around FY26 final spending measures remains very fluid, there are negotiations ongoing between Congressional and Administration leaders amid the fallout from recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis. However, time is very short before the...

On Thursday, the House approved (341-88; 220-207) the remaining fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills, providing full-year funding for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security and rejecting the deep...

With none of the twelve annual spending bills signed into law, Congress has returned from its August recess and has begun negotiations on a short-term stopgap funding bill to fund the government beyond Fiscal Year 25, which expires on September 30, and to...

When Congress returns next week from its August recess, three weeks will remain until current government funding expires at the start of the new fiscal year and until Congress’ scheduled adjournment for fall campaigning ahead of November’s consequential...

Today, Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a fourth continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government beyond March 1, the first of two funding deadlines, with the plan to consider a full year spending package for six of the twelve...