New governing coalition also plans to woo scientists from abroad and make it easier for universities to collaborate with the military on defense research

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Study suggests microplastics have been affecting freshwater animal communities for decades

In latest xenotransplant test, Towana Looney’s body rejects gene-edited organ after more than 4 months

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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