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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

Trade sanctions and budget woes delay new x-ray sources and neutron beams

When nutrients get scarce, some of these organelles specialize in producing energy whereas others turn to manufacturing

Staffing concerns at biomedical facility outweigh risk of transferring elderly animals, agency says

Georgetown University’s Lawrence Gostin weighs in on what the new administration can—and can’t—do to at FDA, CDC, and NIH

Key science agency has lost 9% of employees since President Javier Milei took office last year

U.K. firm plans to revamp FLIP before deploying it to study air-sea interactions and how sonar beams travel

Scientists find evidence of past H5N1 infection in 7% of workers exposed at dairy farms—but no signs of human-to-human transmission

Ancient DNA reveals victims may not have spent their last moments with close family, as long suspected

Co-authors say preliminary data on lecanemab fatalities don’t support the paper’s claims

Beneath Botswana's Kalahari sands are signs of a bigger crackup than previously imagined

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