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NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’

A US National Institutes of Health notice announcing a drastic cut in federal science funding appears to...

A fungus named after Sir David Attenborough zombifies cave spiders

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story

Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing....

A fast radio burst from a dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

A staccato blast of electromagnetic energy has been tracked to an old, dead galaxy for the first...

Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have...

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Many of us have witnessed unusual...

The USAID Shutdown Puts Millions of African Lives at Risk

But for the dramatic events in Washington, DC, AbulMumini Isah and his team would have been plodding...

Readers discuss an unsung scientist, a mutant bacterium named Chonkus, Science News’ new look

Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United...

A daring plan to hold back the sea

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As part of a...

How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World

At the world’s most renowned meteorite show, in Ensisheim in France, I noticed there were many dealers...

Cuttlefish ink may overwhelm sharks’ sense of smell

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...
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