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Ruling comes as government seeks settlement with UCLA on larger set of suspended grants

Making use of an obscure physics effect to fly, devices could probe the upper atmosphere and explore Mars

Evidence from a 500-year-old khipu suggests commoners helped craft the Inca’s intricate knotted records

Overlooked emissions from exotic positronium atoms could improve medical scanners

Unlike people, these nest-building insects pull harder in teams

Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers

Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

Worried about regional security, bloc pushes forward on controversial “dual-use” approach

White Coat Waste Project files complaint over government employee’s emails claiming it incited harassment against Nicole Kleinstreuer

Big brute 5 billion light-years from Earth is 36 billion times as massive as the Sun

Scientists warn $1 billion push for “implementation science” spurred by promise of lenacapavir will hurt research on new treatments and vaccines

Researchers worried by plan giving political appointees more control over where funding goes

Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa

Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

The metal is depleted in brains of people with disease and can reverse memory symptoms in mice, new study shows

DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”

Farming and draft animals didn’t stratify societies in Carpathian Basin

Researchers now know why the caged bird dances: a form of mentally enriching play

Steve Gschmeissner’s electron microscope image of liver cholesterol won a Wellcome Photography Prize this year

Federal judge to hear arguments relating to preliminary injunction to restore funding for other UC grants