Agency will make researchers outside United States seek grants of their own rather than “subawards” from U.S. scientists

Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

Critics say the report, which declines to disclose its authors, contradicts decades of scientific research

Courts have blocked attempts by NIH and DOE to impose a flat 15% rate for reimbursement

Phenomenon behind heavy element creation has been a mystery for 2 decades

Dissolving skeletons would boost oceans’ ability to soak up carbon dioxide

Advocates of animal research fear decision will lead to harassment of scientists and others who oversee such studies

A cocktail of antibodies from snake enthusiast Tim Friede protected mice from many deadly venoms—but some say the study has ethical issues

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

The one-of-a-kind initiative offered support from high school to postdoctoral levels

Fights over research spending and pending court rulings loom large

Fresh radiocarbon data challenge archaeologists’ assumptions about North America’s Indigenous history

Helsinki chemist’s food-themed frolic wins overall honors as other awards recognize physics laser raps, swaying leaf cells, and collective dancing takeovers

As evidence accrues of complex socially transmitted behaviors in animals, biologists are figuring out how to use these data in conservation

Spending panel wants his policies reversed—but it may not have sufficient clout to succeed

Ethics experts raise concerns over consent, study design

After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

Trump’s chaotic push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences

The scientific workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage

Agency plans to promote alternative methods and address “bias” toward animal studies in grant review

Records could reveal how much humanity has altered Sahel rains

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

The project could bolster tribal land rights and serve as a model for partnership between scientists and Indigenous communities

Discovery could help crop breeders preserve grain quality and harvest size as climate changes

This optical illusion from the natural world is testing the limits of computer vision

Analysis of decades-old data yields a faint, meandering point of light beyond Neptune—but many experts are skeptical

Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to boost research

Thomas Crowther has lost his post at the university but denies any misconduct

Minnesota study adds to growing evidence of human-accelerated erosion, which could jeopardize agriculture

Researchers propose modifying protein-design algorithms to keep bad actors from misusing them

Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute

Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

Seven teams in six nations to get lunar material brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission

Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old

“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

Researchers are working with people who lived through the war as teenagers to understand conflict’s long-term tolls

Blocking erythropoietin’s effects on macrophages fights cancer in mice

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Researchers struggle to document the long-term impact of massive herbicide spraying

Proposed conservation strategy led to more hammerhead shark deaths than usual, study finds

Scientists face higher prices and import bans on equipment and supplies

Approach might help plaintiffs win compensation from top emitters

Culture with biblical roots spread across the ancient world, but its people did not

DNA sequencing reveals basis of traits studied by Gregor Mendel—and gives breeders new ways to improve the crop

A new analysis finds supersize crocodilians evolved more frequently than scientists once thought

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Senator’s report targeted up to $2 billion for diversity, climate change, and misinformation research

In his first public remarks, Bhattacharya emphasizes his overall support for agency

After years of frustration, researchers learn how to sharpen molecular images with liquid helium

Agency targets programs that award up to $40 million annually

Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says

Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

International networks told not to start new studies or enroll new trial participants in the country

New analysis of ancient DNA has been overshadowed by the controversy over de-extinction and genetically edited gray wolf pups

Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”

La nacionalidad Shuar del Amazonas colabora con científicos para autentificar cabezas reducidas, o tsantsas, y algún día repatriarlas a casa

Lapse may be temporary, but draft budget plans would eliminate service

Novel computer analysis of records ascribed to legendary Chinese astrologer dates them to nearly 2400 years ago

Technical problems and budget squeeze combine to derail $92 million phased array

The resource is an expansion of the agency’s efforts to address harassment in the U.S. Antarctic Program

Will Republican-led Congress support a 44% decrease for world’s largest medical research funder?

A study suggests a distant world has gases linked on Earth to algae, but others urge caution before invoking alien slime

The approach may only work in some places, researchers say

The first clinical trials are testing inhibitors of transposons, DNA sequences that hop around the genome on their own

An analysis combining nearly 800,000 soil measurements charts threats to agriculture and human health

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Ignoring conclusions of new CDC report, HHS secretary promises “some” answers by September in research effort led by new NIH director

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic

About 120 light-years from Earth, two brown dwarfs host a planet with a surprisingly sideways orbit

Chance to test trade theories might be “the only silver lining” in chaotic policies, one says

Scientists combed the literature, synthesizing evidence of safety for busy providers

Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities

Smaller, more easily made drugs that target GLP-1 could treat obesity and diabetes with fewer side effects

The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water