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The Trump administration has proposed regulations to control billions of dollars in federal research funding, which it says will reduce "fraud and abuse." Scientists in Massachusetts and beyond say they could set back research in the U.S. by decades.

UMass Amherst economists found there's an uptick in patent applications among states with legal recreational pot, but federal research restrictions still make clinical trials hard to do.

Based in East Greenwich, Dewetron specializes in high-tech measurement equipment

The Bartlett Experimental Forest is one of more than 50 research centers being shuttered by the agency. The state’s other experimental forest is not currently slated to close.

Carolina “Caro” Muñoz Agudelo, recently earned a science doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is now the director of public programming and research at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales.

The Artemis II astronauts are on a course back to Earth after flying by the moon Monday, witnessing a solar eclipse, and breaking a distance record set by NASA's Apollo 13 astronauts.

NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. A key maneuver Thursday night sent them hurtling toward their lunar target.

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space exploration.

Anna Wallingford is an entomologist by training. She wants to be a resource for farmers, gardeners and homesteaders who are curious about environmentally-friendly pest management. She calls it "a CSA, but for science."

Caribou native Jessica Meir is headed back to the International Space Station as a member of NASA's SpaceX crew that launched from Cape Canaveral this morning.