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Genome analysis shows how decades of lab cultivation turned C. botulinum, the canned food killer, into a potent tool for medicine and the beauty industry

Judge says Congress must decide whether to extend a pause on reorganization and relocations

The South American empire lasted longer, and met more resistance, than scholars thought

Amid a U.S. push for “deprescribing,” researchers are finding new ways to match patients to their optimal treatment

Agency says it has “resolved” questions about KBR winning an $8 billion contract

The Simons Observatory in Chile will will hunt for galaxy clusters and signs of cosmic inflation

Algal transfusion allows damaged coral to repopulate in as little as 4 weeks

Thousands shared their stories for a new study of faculty attrition

Ecologists are mobilizing to save threatened species and track ecosystems’ responses to record heat

Dump of 722 AI-generated papers has mathematicians wondering: Has their field been decimated or invigorated?

Huge OpenAI release contains “exciting” progress on a puzzle about prime numbers

Industry heavyweights receive first national science medals awarded by the president

Sofya Rozenfeld, an expert on Arctic waterfowl, paid the equivalent of just $27 to a proscribed organization founded by former opposition leader

Unlike other poisonous animals, bees use a strange set of pistons to pump toxin

Algorithm looks for clues about a paper’s origin that text-based detectors miss

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