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A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20 percent.

The migration of birds from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north is in full swing

The Kardashev scale is an interesting but flawed gauge of a civilization’s growth

Rate limits on Claude and other tools could hint at a deeper squeeze on the chips, power and data centers needed to run advanced AI. Researcher Lennart Heim explains

Tracing how psychedelics have undergone a revival in the U.S. and what the White House’s new psychedelic push means for research

Archaeologists have uncovered around 3,000 silver coins so far—and more could come to light

Representatives of more than 50 nations gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia, this week at what was billed as the first global summit on phasing out fossil fuels. A panel of scientists will be advising them

The “hydrogenobody,” a newly discovered structure inside microbial cells in cows’ gut, may play a key role in methane production, a new study suggests

On Thursday the president announced he is nominating Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and Fox News contributor, as the nation’s top doctor

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test of whether life’s chemistry can be simplified

Rescuers had called off the effort to save “Timmy,” a humpback whale that had stranded in the Baltic Sea last month. But now a last-ditch attempt to move the creature by barge is underway

Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a half-billion years after the big bang

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics

Los Angeles public schools are limiting computer use in classrooms over health concerns. But experts say that approach is missing the problem

A recent experiment revealed that individual dark points on a light wave can move faster than the wave itself

The recent measles outbreak in South Carolina sickened nearly 1,000 people before public health officials got it under control. Vaccination can effectively prevent further spread

A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of year, one expert says

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the empire’s fall

Former National Institutes of Health official David Morens is accused of evading record requests related to the COVID pandemic’s origins and gain-of-function research

Our food choices could play an important, short-term role in how our bodies respond to infections, new research suggests