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Tiny wing scales suggest the proboscis evolved 100 million years before flowers

Halogen bulbs more reliably catch deer’s attention, but whether the animals flee or freeze comes down to individual temperament

Trump’s 57% proposed cut to agency would drop grant success rates to 7% and gut education and training

Researchers decry agency’s decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine

Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions

Halt to foreign “subawards” disrupts ongoing global studies and has researchers scrambling to fulfill ethical obligations to trial volunteers

References to phantom studies comes after White House pledge to practice “gold standard” science

New system yields sharp views of the Sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere

Unusual setup shows how the animals get their bearings in deep ocean

Researchers have long debated the risks posed by low levels of ionizing radiation

Despite 50 Nobelists and 75,000 alumni, NSF’s graduate research fellows could be a vanishing breed

Scientists find DNA from an enigmatic bacterium in 1000-year-old skeletons

With clinical trials imminent, hopes are rising high for the long-struggling field of xenotransplantation

Study traces mysterious strain of white-nose disease to visits between American and European cavers

Leinweber Foundation donation will help fund postdocs and graduate students at multiple institutions

Astronomers are puzzled by the silence over an instrument that could briefly reign as world’s biggest

In Lesotho and Eswatini, treatment and prevention cutbacks are hitting pregnant women, children, and teens especially hard

Advanced training lets a four-legged robot learn to move around the court with ease

Scientists warn that chronic underfunding and diverting support away from fundamental research may undermine efforts to boost the economy

Study pushes back human use of whale bones more than 1000 years