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Male Neanderthals tended to pair up with female modern humans, but whether intercourse was consensual is unclear

Environmental engineer Evens Emmanuel is trying to rebuild a shattered academic system

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

Researchers worry question plus other changes will reduce accuracy and boost costs of 2030 count

Billions of years ago, melting rocks deep inside the Moon could have led to bursts of surprisingly strong magnetism

Organizers of the 2029 World Conference of Science Journalists defend Beijing meeting as opportunity to connect with Chinese scientists

Proposed rule at National Institute of Standards and Technology would limit access to a few years for international researchers and students

Water droplets set off a chemical cascade that tells a plant it’s time to blossom, new study finds

Large-scale study finds that simplifying delivery of prevention medication and improving connections to clinics is key

Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

As new global arms race looms, accusation highlights limits to monitoring low-yield tests

Women and children were executed in an elaborate prehistoric ritual

New anatomical research reveals the one trick all ponies know

Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

Search through space telescope’s archival images reveals unusually dim galaxy

Two-billion-year-old rocks in China suggest mountain building from Earth’s first supercontinent led to a planetwide burst of erosion

Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all

Fast-moving cracks in tape’s adhesive layer produce shock waves that make the stuff sing as it unrolls

First-of-its-kind product raises questions about costs, access, and equity

Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House