William Young calls terminations illegal, berates agency for discrimination

Drone imagery reveals ancient arena where Tyrannosaurus rex– or ostrichlike dinos may have wooed mates

Coalition offers two models it says increase accountability and reflect the “true costs” of research

Mystery signals used to locate gases in the spaces between galaxies

House panel rejects cuts to agricultural research, and Senators express doubts about cuts to NIH and forest research

Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers

With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses

Bombing raids target uranium enrichment facility and key personnel

Evidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts

U.S. should plan to build machine to hunt for new subatomic particles, National Academies report says

District judge could declare terminations unlawful—or toss suit based on technicalities

Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming

Warming world could further heighten tensions over access to Indus River waters

Science chats with James Tabery about the overlooked role of Black prisoners in understanding the genetics of drug reactions

Government also announces cash for nuclear, carbon capture, and AI projects

Shifting production from yew trees to yeast could lead to cheaper synthesis of Taxol precursor

Newly described fossils point to ancient movement between Asia and North America

New brain-computer interface allows control of intonation, and generates a person’s voice at the speed of typical speech

Jay Bhattacharya says NIH’s final budget will be a “collaboration”

Degrading LIGO’s observations of gravitational waves would amount to “killing a newborn baby,” one astrophysicist says

Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

Health secretary will soon name new members to expert group that recommends shots

Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe”

Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

Macrophages help male deer build their impressive headgear, new study suggests

A tiny sliver of NIH, it has provided an evidence base for bedside care, shrinking mortality and saving dollars

In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes

Economic collapse in Palestinian territories has led to illegal digs at prominent Bronze Age site, new study finds

Fewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices

Data gaps come as Arctic sea ice shrinks to near-record lows

Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom

Scientists are figuring out where “downscaled” climate models struggle—and how they can be improved

Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

Scientists film nematodes forming a superorganism in the wild for the first time

Despite poor conditions, Indigenous growers used innovative techniques to grow large crops of corn, beans, and squash

Gates Foundation grant enables cash-strapped body to create unit seeking to bridge gap between mathematicians and math educators

But overall, machine learning approach closely matches what human scholars had long suspected about ancient documents

Continent faces a shortage of doses and distribution challenges

The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population

Muon is just as magnetic as predicted, requiring no new theory to explain