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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

Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds

Novel technique analyzing metabolites of tobacco in bone could be applied to other substances, potentially revising views of past health and behavior

Building a cadre of researchers is of “vital importance” to saving the world's second largest rainforest

Records from past centuries show vast extent of bivalves before overharvesting, may inspire restoration

Authorities have been slow to release data about cases and how they are connected

Cataclysm that killed dinosaurs and shook up life on Earth likely paved the way for this mutually beneficial relationship