Science & Technology

Trump administration quashes NIH scientific integrity policy
April 3, 2025
The now-rescinded policy, designed to protect government researchers from political pressure, strongly endorsed DEI in science ...
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After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
April 3, 2025
Neuroscience institutes tells 10 scientists placed on leave it’s working on a “long-term” solution to officially reinstating them ...
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NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts
April 3, 2025
Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work ...
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Immune cells have unexpected role in fighting pain
April 2, 2025
Inflammation-suppressing regulatory T cells reduce pain in female mice by targeting nerve cells ...
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‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos
April 2, 2025
In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings ...
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Geoengineering could fight climate change—if the public can be convinced
April 2, 2025
Researchers’ failures to communicate are jeopardizing even basic tests, but new projects may point the way forward ...
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Skeletons from ‘green Sahara’ offer genetic peek at a lost human population
April 2, 2025
Ancient DNA sheds light on a fleeting, lush interlude of North African prehistory ...
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Why NIH labs have no supplies and April fooling at CDC: Trump Tracker
April 2, 2025
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally ...
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Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations
April 2, 2025
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious ...
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