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Trump administration escalates efforts to keep sensitive data from foreign adversaries

A new directly determined limit on the neutrino’s mass arrives as those from cosmology become murkier

Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions

“Murder pathway” may have tamed wildcats over several generations

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First confirmed fossil found outside Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau shows the archaic human also lived in hot climates

Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election

Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million

Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

New discoveries on Malta show people settled remote islands before the rise of farming

“Outrageous” cuts claim leaders of five NIH institutes, as well as offices throughout FDA and CDC

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The “life-changing” fellowship will go to 1000 fewer students this year

Genetically edited gray wolf pups became instant media darlings—and drew hefty skepticism from scientists

Other countries, foundations, international groups are unable to replace billions lost in U.S. cuts

Despite its extreme heat waves, the country’s decadeslong warming trend amounts to half the global average

“Landmark” study fingers fire-footed rope squirrel as a reservoir of fatal disease

Massive study links a child’s social environment to white matter structure

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The 2-millimeter-long bug is among the smallest animals ever observed performing territorial displays

Poor soils and dry climate could undermine effort to expand rice growing by 1 million hectares, experts warn

Without enforcement mechanisms, the Biological Weapons Convention risks leaving the world “completely unprepared”

Neuroscience institutes tells 10 scientists placed on leave it’s working on a “long-term” solution to officially reinstating them

Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work

The now-rescinded policy, designed to protect government researchers from political pressure, strongly endorsed DEI in science

Inflammation-suppressing regulatory T cells reduce pain in female mice by targeting nerve cells

Researchers’ failures to communicate are jeopardizing even basic tests, but new projects may point the way forward

In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings

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Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious

Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory

The impressions, once considered fish burrows, were found along a shoreline with a notable role in Scottish history

Multiple companies aim to generate power by corraling plasma with twisted magnets

Hockey-loving physicists from around the world lug their stinky gear to play at the American Physical Society’s annual meeting

Reassignment letters come as reductions in force begin at NIH, FDA, and CDC

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Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans

New systems can identify unknown proteins in samples from diseased tissue, the environment, and archaeological sites

DOGE argues killing grants saves money, but a Science analysis suggests more than $1.4 billion in sunk research costs may produce few results

Research reveals how the key structural protein, inherently unstable at body temperature, forms resilient twists

The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards

Particles loaded with RNA reverse symptoms of respiratory failure and atherosclerosis in mice

Terminated grants include efforts to get students and underrepresented groups involved in science

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NIH takes smaller hit than some other parts of HHS

Hunter-gatherers in what today is Turkey may have smelted copper more than 10,000 years ago

A mutation that should have cut a protein short instead makes it more sensitive to the stress of exercise

Urban infernos spew a unique brew of toxic smoke and ash—with unknown effects on the risk of diseases such as cancer

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Research advocates hope Michael Kratsios will defend federally funded research against Trump onslaught

Transplants of similar cells grown in a lab protected vision in mice

The unusual structure may have helped the insect deposit eggs inside its victims

Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities

Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

Motion camouflage makes creatures invisible while stalking prey

Susan Monarez, an expert in biosecurity and infectious disease, strikes some as a sensible choice to head the health agency—but some staffers there have raised concerns

The almendro withstands thunderbolts that blast away parasitic vines

Deep funding cuts could deprive millions of treatment and cause more than 350,000 extra deaths per year, report predicts

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What, if anything, this chittering means remains a mystery

It's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so

Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

Disease surveillance programs worldwide are suddenly in limbo

A planned gas terminal would routinely send huge tankers through a marine mammal oasis, scientists fear

Fatty acid byproducts could be the remains of microbes—or not