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Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t
Major discoveries, including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome, missed out on science’s top recognition
Canada commits $1.2 billion to protect oceans while pushing ahead with pipeline
Scientists welcome new money but remain cautious about weakening environmental protections
Exclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why
To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent
AI helps decipher what elephant herds are ‘saying’
What sounds like a jumble of noise is actually a group signal
Oil wells could become mines for critical minerals
Engineered fluids could extract metals from fracked reservoirs, supplying materials for solar cells and electric vehicles
Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
Experimental reactor needed much more uranium and heavy water than the country could muster
Menopause puts the brain at risk. Researchers are starting to learn why
Shifts in blood proteins could point to ways to fight menopause “brain fog” and prevent later dementia
Africa’s effort to make most of its own vaccines by 2040 faces significant headwinds
Companies striving to reduce continent’s reliance on foreign shots must overcome major financial and logistical challenges
Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle
Optical illusions trick enemies into misjudging the insects’ speed and direction
Method to ‘watermark’ AI-designed proteins could deter bioweapons, protect scientific credit
Google DeepMind team inserts identifiable pattern into protein’s sequence without compromising its structure or function
Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t
How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized
Will Trump administration weaken protections for human research subjects?
Ethicists are wary of an HHS proposal to loosen rules for “low-risk research”
These frogs ‘see’ prey with their star-shaped toes
Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals
Scientists engineered a glowing cuttlefish. Why was it so hard?
Breakthroughs in genetically altering cephalopods pave way for new studies of perception, brain evolution, and more
Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
Fed up with Brazil’s politicians not listening, a climate scientist runs for office
Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this weekend’s elections
U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
Japan’s Science Council to face greater governmental oversight
Imminent change in legal status raises concerns that national academy will serve political interests
Laser-generated particles allow scientists to see through walls
First clean pictures from a muon beam point to a new way to peer inside suspicious packages and ancient structures
New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared
NASA’s $1.2 billion PRIMA will explore how galaxies evolve and how planets emerge from disks of gas and dust
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