Concentrating funding at high-powered universities can maximize output, paper argues, but may sacrifice broader benefits

Overlooked rock samples from 640 million years ago record microbes hanging on beneath frozen oceans

Verification of 50 years of data bolsters immunology research, but identifies “suspicious” papers that don’t hold up

Submerged fossils are revealing long-held secrets from a region known as Sundaland

The prestigious organization faces funding challenges and political controversies

In exclusive chat with Science, Loreen Willenberg describes remaining HIV-free even after immune-suppressing therapies for brain and lung tumors

House committees give a real boost to DOE science and shrink size of cuts to NSF and NASA science

Under new plan, universities would detail the full cost of research

But some scientists warn the research, which compared energy burned across populations, can’t reveal the epidemic’s causes

South Africa plans modest spending increase, but shortfalls will limit prevention and treatment

Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists

The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers

Suggestions that nation’s Indigenous Māori wholeheartedly back project draws criticism

Cracking the main subtype of the Dhofari script could reveal “an entirely new page of the history of Arabia”

House spending committee has taken similar position on 2026 request

Phalanx of instruments scrutinize 3I/ATLAS for clues about planet formation elsewhere in the galaxy

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

Adults in the ICU often don’t know about the genetic diagnoses related to their symptoms, DNA sequencing study shows

Understanding the origins of mysterious seeps could help prospectors extract natural hydrogen fuel

Some worry new members of the long-running Advisory Committee to the Director will mirror agency chief Jay Bhattacharya’s views

Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

After decades in the doldrums, atom-based machines could overtake rival technologies

NASA and India’s $1.5 billion NISAR mission promises global time lapses of the planet’s ever-changing land and ice

New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants