Science & Technology

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities
August 15, 2025
Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns ...
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Fossilized fish trails reveal earliest steps out of water
August 15, 2025
Possible lungfish tracks could push back animal migration onto land by 10 million years ...
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Museum artifacts rewrite the timeline of gold refining
August 14, 2025
One technique was practiced significantly earlier than some researchers believe ...
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Deaths threats to NIH official spark debate over aggressive campaign to end animal research
August 10, 2025
White Coat Waste Project files complaint over government employee’s emails claiming it incited harassment against Nicole Kleinstreuer ...
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Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants
August 7, 2025
Researchers worried by plan giving political appointees more control over where funding goes ...
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Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed
August 6, 2025
Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear ...
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Could lithium stave off Alzheimer’s disease?
August 6, 2025
The metal is depleted in brains of people with disease and can reverse memory symptoms in mice, new study shows ...
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Ancient Europeans resisted inequality for 5000 years
August 5, 2025
Farming and draft animals didn’t stratify societies in Carpathian Basin ...
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NIH details options for limiting its payments for open-access publishing fees
August 5, 2025
Other publishing proposals would scrap reimbursements or pay peer reviewers, unprecedented steps for a major government funder ...
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Why a top economist discounts Trump’s claim U.S. jobs data are ‘rigged’
August 4, 2025
A former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics rebuts reason why president fired the agency’s leader ...
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