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Report urges U.S. research agency to make safety a higher priority in new support contract

Hairs extracted from broken teeth reveal the infamous cats preyed on more than just humans

A member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry shares her perspective on how she and others are trying to expand the nomination pool for the famed awards

New insights on what stimulates long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines

Research suggests swings in Pacific Ocean can account for planet’s sudden and perplexing temperature jump

Atom-thin sheets of carbon are finding applications not just in consumer electronics, but cars, concrete, and brain implants

The latest in science and policy

First broad look at conservation status of animals that transport seeds raises alarms

Researchers suspect they were passed over for major awards after criticizing government policies

As Milton hurtles toward Florida, researchers are rushing to collect data—and already looking ahead to the next disaster

Award honors AI approaches to predicting protein shapes and designing new ones for medicine

New findings cause quandary for parents of boys with deadly condition

Theory suggests sinking tropical air masses, not rising ones, lead to dead calms

Finding reveals how different arthropod groups could be related to each other

Origin of the famed creases reveals how the trunk became the “most unbelievable grasping organ on the planet”

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton honored for early work on artificial neural networks

Injured sea walnuts can join bodies and thrive again by merging some of their systems

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun honored for discovery of microRNAs in worms

Computers can be trained to exhibit pareidolia, the phenomenon of recognizing faces in objects

University of Chicago will again lead a group to manage the United States’s only dedicated particle physics lab