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Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

New film explores how scientists see nature differently from each other—and from everyone else

Water-resistant armor gives delicate water droplets the nimbleness of white blood cells

Programs at NIH and Defense Department are pared back by bill that keeps funding at 2024 levels

Physicists cast doubt on measurements validating Microsoft’s first quantum chip, Majorana 1

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Researchers discover rare example of defensive mimicry in birds

Baby-friendly imaging challenges long-standing assumptions about “infantile amnesia”

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The island country has become the world’s leading exporter of long-tailed macaques, pitting politicians, conservationists, and neighbors against each other

A drug candidate with a new mechanism of action shows promise against several drug-resistant infections in mice

High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores

Pennsylvania expands study of whether more social interaction and homier spaces improve health and safety—for incarcerated individuals and staff

Magma protruding in the South China Sea reveals unexpected amounts of water

Dark energy, assumed to be a cosmological constant, varied over time, new data show

Unusual experiment suggests managed bees can outcompete wild bees and contribute to their decline

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope captures the afterglow of the Big Bang in unprecedented detail

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John Nkengasong, who had helmed PEPFAR since 2022, says “history will remember we showed humanity”

Threats to end funding over alleged antisemitism are rocking medical researchers—and stoking calls for legal action