Under the auspices of keeping federal spending under control, Republican congressmen have launched yet another attack on basic scientific research that could lead to useful, potentially job-creating discoveries.

House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) announced last week that the YouCut Citizen Review, a crowdsourcing tool for identifying “wasteful spending that should be cut,”

The NFL’s Brain, Head and Neck Medical Committee will convene this Wednesday and Thursday in New York City, and cochair Hunt Batjer of Northwestern University gave Wired.com an exclusive preview of what we can expect from the league group looking into the issue of player safety and how on-field concussions and traumatic brain injuries can be