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

Scientists face higher prices and import bans on equipment and supplies

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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