Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”

New campaign, Choose Science for Europe, aims to recruit talent from countries where science is under siege

2500-year-old hallucinogenic rituals may have allowed Chavín de Huántar elites to gain prestige and influence

Agency will make researchers outside United States seek grants of their own rather than “subawards” from U.S. scientists

Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

Critics say the report, which declines to disclose its authors, contradicts decades of scientific research

Courts have blocked attempts by NIH and DOE to impose a flat 15% rate for reimbursement

Phenomenon behind heavy element creation has been a mystery for 2 decades

Dissolving skeletons would boost oceans’ ability to soak up carbon dioxide

Advocates of animal research fear decision will lead to harassment of scientists and others who oversee such studies

A cocktail of antibodies from snake enthusiast Tim Friede protected mice from many deadly venoms—but some say the study has ethical issues

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

The one-of-a-kind initiative offered support from high school to postdoctoral levels

Fights over research spending and pending court rulings loom large

Fresh radiocarbon data challenge archaeologists’ assumptions about North America’s Indigenous history

Helsinki chemist’s food-themed frolic wins overall honors as other awards recognize physics laser raps, swaying leaf cells, and collective dancing takeovers

As evidence accrues of complex socially transmitted behaviors in animals, biologists are figuring out how to use these data in conservation

Spending panel wants his policies reversed—but it may not have sufficient clout to succeed

Ethics experts raise concerns over consent, study design

After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

Trump’s chaotic push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences

The scientific workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage

Agency plans to promote alternative methods and address “bias” toward animal studies in grant review

Records could reveal how much humanity has altered Sahel rains

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

The project could bolster tribal land rights and serve as a model for partnership between scientists and Indigenous communities

Discovery could help crop breeders preserve grain quality and harvest size as climate changes

This optical illusion from the natural world is testing the limits of computer vision

Analysis of decades-old data yields a faint, meandering point of light beyond Neptune—but many experts are skeptical

Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to boost research

Thomas Crowther has lost his post at the university but denies any misconduct

Minnesota study adds to growing evidence of human-accelerated erosion, which could jeopardize agriculture

Researchers propose modifying protein-design algorithms to keep bad actors from misusing them

Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute

Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

Seven teams in six nations to get lunar material brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission

Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

Researchers are working with people who lived through the war as teenagers to understand conflict’s long-term tolls