Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts

War with Russia is reshaping research on everything from exotic drones to trauma care

Studies of soldiers and civilians could provide clues to diagnosis and treatments

The nation’s vast deposits of critical minerals have drawn interest from Russia and the United States

Interbreeding with tomatoes 9 million years ago gave potatoes the genes to develop tubers

Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized

A mummy’s inked skin sheds light on the history of body art

Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases

A warming climate is enabling rodents to move north

International food security body issues rare alert about “worst-case scenario” unfolding

Slow-motion footage helps scientists predict flight paths of molten projectiles

Puzzling objects spotted by NASA’s JWST telescope may be entirely new class of celestial entity

Infecting marine plankton, the pathogen may use its extreme appendage to enter host cells

Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

Analysis of DNA from 23andMe users points to variants in genes linked to brain function and sense of rhythm

One of the agency’s largest and most storied research facilities will be closed along with most forest research stations

Three spending panels say a 15% cap isn’t the right answer to nagging concerns about how universities are reimbursed

Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Relief that NIH funding will be restored mingles with fears that academic independence will suffer—and that other universities will make similar concessions

It’s the first example of this common fossil found in the ancient Roman world

Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others

The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence