Pilot grants will help scientists train software to tackle societal problems

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo sería la primera investigadora en dirigir el país, pero sus críticos temen que sea tan hostil a la ciencia como su predecesor.

Healthy volunteers—who usually join studies for money—deserve special attention, researchers say

Money for new repatriation program would be better spent supporting researchers who stayed in Brazil, critics say

The rough woodlouse is the smallest known animal to disperse seeds by eating and excreting them

Predicting how proteins bind to other molecules could revolutionize biochemistry, drug discovery

Well-intentioned decision to switch oral polio vaccines in 2016 backfired, new draft report says

Researchers dissected a surprising data source and found a sign of ecosystem health

New policies for gain-of-function and “dual-use” research will cover broader swath of experiments

Discovery of potentially complex communication could reveal way to interpret what these marine mammals are saying—but not everyone is convinced

Novel effort comes as study finds key receptor for avian flu virus in udders

In $940 million deal, PsiQuantum will build “utility scale” facility to harness photons

Warming due to cleaner air rippled across the ocean, modeling suggests

Green-rumped parrotlet stepfathers still get their DNA into the gene pool when they spare their adoptive chicks’ lives

Newly identified water-loss mechanism means planet may have had an ocean more recently

First-ever analysis finds a method called differential privacy degrades data at smallest units and could jeopardize voting rights

Foreign trainees seeking U.S. medical residencies pay hefty sums to build research resumes

First reconstruction of leprotic bacterial genome from ancient animal remains sheds new light on its ecology

Plant engineered to counter a debilitating vitamin A deficiency in developing countries has faced fierce opposition

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo would be first researcher to lead the country, but critics worry she’ll be as hostile to science as her predecessor

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