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Honesty researcher’s lawsuit against data sleuths dismissed
Judge rules that bloggers sued by Francesca Gino are protected by the First Amendment, but allows some claims against Harvard to proceed
Insights into notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuel hope for staving off dementia
The gene variant APOE4 is finally giving up some of its secrets, spurring new strategies to stop the dreaded neurodegenerative disease
International postdocs in the U.S. are short-changed—in more ways than one
Postdocs who hold temporary visas are paid less and receive less career development and guidance than U.S. citizens, new study finds
AI chatbot shows promise in talking people out of conspiracy theories
The imperturbable bot succeeds where humans usually fail, experiment finds
Arctic ecosystems get long-term look with drifting research station
Riding on top of sea ice, domed vessel will carry crews on 2-year-long polar voyages
U.S. state composting laws are mostly trash—except for one, study finds
First analysis of laws on composting food finds that tough regulations, like those in Massachusetts, work
A tsunami in a remote fjord rang Earth like a bell for 9 days
Scientists trace strange seismic signal to landslide that triggered sloshing, 200-meter-tall waves in Greenland
News at a glance: Satellite tracks, jailed Russian physicist, and North Korea’s foreign professors
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Strong El Niños primed Earth for mass extinction
Extreme weather sparked by ocean shifts set stage for Great Dying 250 million years ago
Suspicious phrases in peer reviews point to referees gaming the system
Hundreds of scientific papers bear signs of reviewers using templates to quickly churn out reports for personal gain
Famed Polynesian island did not succumb to ‘ecological suicide,’ new evidence reveals
Genomic, archaeological data show population on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, never “collapsed” as some had argued
Viagra and other unlikely candidates lead hunt for new longevity drugs
A mouse study running for decades has found promising compounds for extending life—and ruled out many others
Parasitologists up in arms as NIH ends funding for key database
Trove of data-mining resources on malaria and other killers set to go dark this weekend
Watch this parasitic wasp pick on a fly its own size
The first wasp known to lay its eggs in adult fruit flies could shed light on parasite behavior
Watch a ghostly creature carry seaweed upside down on the bottom of the Atlantic
Deep-sea submersible captures habits and anatomy of strange isopods for first time
After cosmic dark ages, what burned away ubiquitous clouds of gas? NASA telescope finds surprises
JWST reveals a surfeit of ultraviolet light from the first stars and giant black holes—clues to the universe’s reionization
Children show up in droves for Gaza’s ‘dangerous and difficult’ polio campaign
Pauses in fighting have held, but success of the vaccination drive is still uncertain
Cattle may pose little threat to iconic wildlife in Kenya park
Study’s results may have implications for conservation policy in the Maasai Mara National Reserve
X-ray video reveals eel’s daring escape from predator’s stomach
A rare look at how young fish avoid becoming dinner
Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab
Samples destined for destruction at a Paris institute trigger a virological “detective story”
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