Policy to be implemented next year drew more than 900 comments, most of them critical

Two treatments for the sexually transmitted disease are expected to become available soon

But new defense bill drops or weakens some controversial proposals

Systematic price monitoring sheds light on economics of online manipulation

Pollinators’ antennae act like thermal cameras to spot self-heating plants

With an infrared eye, NEO Surveyor will target dangerous space rocks glowing in the dark

With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help

DARPA program could yield models of disease spread in days instead of weeks

A boom in aquifer injection projects could unlock long-quiet faults

Novel approach could be faster, and cheaper, than making the cells in the lab—but safety concerns linger

Phil Krause applauds call by top agency official Vinay Prasad for better data, but says his approach is “destructive”

Energy spectrum of elusive particles shows an intriguing bump, giant IceCube experiment reports

Optogenetics is poised to move from a research tool to new therapies—if scientists can show it’s safe

Bark spider silk is stronger than steel, but males make a weaker version

Growing more common as climate warms, these once-rare events could ultimately accelerate ice loss

Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe

Despite extensive safety record, U.S. health advisers are set to discuss claimed link to asthma

Increasingly popular theories hold that experimental outcomes really do depend on the observer

Fibers found on waka in Chatham Islands roughly align in age with earliest known human arrival

Crop failures caused by eruptions possibly forced grain imports from plague-ridden regions

Proposed “megaconstellations” would contaminate images from telescopes in low-Earth orbit, including Hubble

Device weighing less than a paperclip is faster and more agile than its predecessors

New York aims to democratize access to hardware often limited to federal labs and Big Tech

Reorganization could shift mission of the United States’s largest funder of the physical sciences