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Damage to century-old Palladin Institute marks “disaster for biological science in Ukraine”

Scientists will test an antiviral drug and an antibody cocktail designed to tame the burgeoning outbreak

Mantle waves and tectonic stretching lofted polar mountains into a deep freeze

Svalbard is warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth, but security concerns are tightening access to its glaciers, fjords, and sea floor

A synthetic cell can now grow and divide—but it’s still far from alive

Orbiting data centers and sunlight reflectors would scupper astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images and brightening skies, study finds

New NAS president discusses the future of the beleaguered institution and the precarious state of U.S. science under Trump

Agency says closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center will improve efficiency, but skeptics argue it will undercut research critical to farmers

Darkling beetle larvae could provide museum curators a new way to preserve animal skeletons for display

World’s biggest digital camera will repeatedly scan the sky, spotting cosmic explosions while building up a deep map of billions of galaxies

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

Government shutdown, staff shortages have complicated effort to meet 30 September deadline to spend funds

About 1 million insect species have been described, but a new analysis suggests tens of millions more may be out there

Centuries of strain had built up on faults in the region, making them overdue for a major rupture

Analysis of 90 missions suggests midpriced spacecraft produce the most science per dollar

Advance nearly doubles chip density, but also highlights the challenge of sustaining historic trend

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

In pursuit of human-level intelligence, researchers are developing agents that learn by acting in virtual environments rather than simply absorbing more text

Investigation finds problems in a key clinical trial that critics said was too good to be true

Analysis of fossil proteins deepens mystery of the enigmatic Homo naledi