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Discovery could help crop breeders preserve grain quality and harvest size as climate changes

Spending panel wants his policies reversed—but it may not have sufficient clout to succeed

Ethics experts raise concerns over consent, study design

After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

The scientific workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage

Trump’s chaotic push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences

Agency plans to promote alternative methods and address “bias” toward animal studies in grant review

Records could reveal how much humanity has altered Sahel rains

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

This optical illusion from the natural world is testing the limits of computer vision

Analysis of decades-old data yields a faint, meandering point of light beyond Neptune—but many experts are skeptical

Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to boost research

Researchers propose modifying protein-design algorithms to keep bad actors from misusing them

Thomas Crowther has lost his post at the university but denies any misconduct

Minnesota study adds to growing evidence of human-accelerated erosion, which could jeopardize agriculture

Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

Seven teams in six nations to get lunar material brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission

Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old

Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020