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Innovation Policy 2026-05-28

NSF's big bet on outsider science

Earlier this month NSF announced its new X-Labs program , a $1.5 billion, decade-long initiative to fund independent, milestone-driven research teams working outside of traditional university and corporate structures. Th…

by Jordan Dworkin · on National Science Foundation · from Data centers vs. the grid, Houses atop post offices, and Dispatches from Marblehead

Innovation Policy 2026-04-10

A high-variance budget request for NSF

The National Science Foundation’s 2027 budget request makes for some high variance reading. Two things that have me excited are the proposal for an NSF metascience unit to “champion agency-wide efforts to explore non-tra…

by Matt Clancy · on National Science Foundation · from American happiness, science funding battles, and rethinking think tank reports