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The Trump Administration Has Abandoned Its Fight to Cap Overhead Research Costs at 15%
The legal battle over a proposed rule that would have cost research universities billions has ended with a whimper. The Trump administration had until Monday to appeal a court’s ruling that barred it from enacting a 15-percent cap on the National Institutes of Health’s reimbursement of researchers’ indirect costs. The deadline came and went, STAT reported , meaning an appeals court’s ruling that the proposed cap was illegal will be the final word. (Congress earlier this year barred the NIH and other agencies from changing their indirect-cost rules for the next year.)
4/9/26Science, Editorial, Mike Lauer, Mark Barnes
More transparency needed on misconduct
Instances of misconduct stoke public mistrust in the scientific enterprise. Efforts in the United States to decrease inappropriate professional behavior in science have included enhancing institutional accountability. Yet, the moments often missed are those in which academic institutions land in precarious situations because newly hired staff are discovered to have a checkered history
4/7/26Science
Department of Energy’s AI push squeezes funding for research grants
Tapping already strained budgets, Genesis Mission gives scientists just weeks to apply for first awards