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Teams led by physicist used “BootLoops” software to produce 36 papers in weeks on everything from linguistics to health policy

Department of Agriculture will expand effort to describe genetics of seed banks

Department will also initiate new fellowship program to shorten path to Ph.D.

The “ungraceful exit” of Chronicle Heritage leaves many researchers fearful for the future

Ban on hunting for new viruses in wildlife is at odds with program’s mission, researchers say

The agency spent its full budget, but left many applicants out of luck

Researchers concluded that doomsday will fall on 13 November—but not for the reasons we might expect today

Using genome editing to trace cell lineages, researchers capture the early history of the mouse embryo in unprecedented detail

Samples from Japan’s MMX mission could reveal how Phobos formed—and may contain pieces of Mars

Climate change appears to have made food scarce for chinstrap penguins, which had numbered more than 1 million on a remote South Atlantic island

Ancient swimming creature provides clues to when nursing evolved

The landmark release of 722 papers targeting 372 unsolved problems draws amazement—and criticism

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win award for reactions leading to mirror-image molecules

Biotech executive Steven Quay may be in contention for leadership role in infectious disease institute

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

New controls could limit papers by early-career researchers

Francis Halzen honored for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which discovers ghostly particles from the distant universe and tracks their origins

Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company

Much is unclear about the tragedy, but plague researchers say there is “zero” chance of an epidemic

If Democrats win one or both chambers of Congress, investigations are likely, but meaningful change may be elusive