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Massive SinoProbe II project will probe the depths with drill rigs and a countrywide deployment of instruments

Ice mummy preserves extinct cat from claws to paws

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed radical change including scrutinizing long-standing vaccines and slashing staff at research and regulatory agencies

Study of charcoal and pollen could give Aboriginal advocates of traditional burns “more voice at the table”

Senator John Thune helped convert an abandoned South Dakota gold mine into a deep underground laboratory

Sapphire crystal’s vibrations used to make two-ways-at-once quantum bit

CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand

ChatGPT-like model learns on its own to devise new proteins and genetic sequences

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Small-brained member of Homo that lived 1.8 million years ago may signal a step toward long, drawn-out childhoods

Web of Science index decides to strip key metric because elife’s unusual peer review doesn’t meet its criteria

Report recommends an immediate ban on joint projects in a host of sensitive fields

Zigzagging light bent by perfectly aligned galaxies could improve estimates of Hubble constant

As Russia’s invasion creeps inward, farmers are abandoning millions of hectares of farmland

“Deep deceiver” adds a new branch to the nudibranch family tree

Republican control of Congress will help him with agency appointments and policy shifts

Six months after backlash, AI company fulfills pledge to make AlphaFold3’s full computer model available for noncommercial use

Scientists worry Trump will leave WHO and make deep cuts in programs that aim to control diseases worldwide

Berislav Zlokovic no longer heads neuroscience institute, University of Southern California email reveals

Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use—and possible “pranking”—among pachyderms