As the United States struggles with its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, lobbyists for basic research are offering one more reason the federal government should boost its investment in science

When marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco takes the reins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, her political bosses are likely to ask the agency to play a bigger role in studying and preparing for climate change

A team reported here at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society that it has found a new way of spotting galaxy mergers: by looking for the dance of death of their central black holes