It wasn’t until the 1950 establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest funding source for basic ...

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as ...

the union representing more than 1,000 workers at the National Science Foundation, said Monday that around 84 to 86 probationary employees may be rehired. About 10% of the NSF staff was fired last ...

At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings ...

Probationary employees fired from the National Science Foundation are being reinstated following a court ruling and guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, the science agency said Monday.

Science is often portrayed as the stuff of villains in sci-fi movies or as almost magical in catching criminals on TV dramas. The reality is that the scientific research that benefits us all takes ...

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Monday that it is reinstating dozens of probationary employees that the Trump ...

The reversal comes after a federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration's directives to fire their probationary employees were illegal.

The budget request will be the first of President Trump's second term, and it will offer a clear window into the priorities ...

Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure The US government's National Science ...