For the first time in more than 15 years, Montana bison will roam new grazing grounds on public land. After 4 years of review, the…
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A decision by the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) to retain its director with full duties despite a finding that he engaged in research…
For decades, eastern Oregon’s scablands—rocky patches of open terrain—were a refuge for people fighting wildfires in the surrounding forests. The thin soil and sparse vegetation…
News at a glance: AI reveals protein structures, racism’s impact on memory, and rising tiger numbers
INFECTIOUS DISEASE Progress toward ending AIDS has stalled The world’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is faltering badly in the face of declines in spending…
In the 1570s, when King Philip II of Spain sent emissaries to survey the flora and fauna of villages in central and southern Spain, he…
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and science leaders from around the world are calling on scientific publishers to immediately make…
Curing HIV infections remains one of the most formidable challenges in biomedicine, in part because cells that hold the viral DNA in their chromosomes persist…
For humans and wildlife alike, feral donkeys can be a pain in the ass. Large and full of attitude, the scruffy vegetation-destroying equids steal resources…
For climate advocates in the United States, the past month felt like a roller coaster. In early July, negotiations in Congress on clean energy legislation…
More than 2 years in the making, a massive bill that Congress completed this week aims high: It envisions a 5-year, $280 billion investment to…
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind stunned many scientists with the release of predicted structures for…
Before embarking on his Ph.D., Ralph McNutt had never been east of the Mississippi River. But soon after the young Texan arrived at the Massachusetts…
If all goes well next week, South Korea will join the small number of countries to have sent spacecraft to the Moon—and scientists around the…
A new study has shown that taking a single dose of a widely used, cheap antibiotic within 3 days after condomless sex can help prevent…
Over the past 10,000 years, populations living far apart in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East separately acquired a key genetic change: the…
There’s a new call from the White House to develop vaccines that might protect against future SARS-CoV-2 mutants or even unknown coronaviruses. “The vaccines we…
On 15 January, Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted under the sea, rocking the South Pacific nation and sending tsunamis racing around the world. The…
We swat bees to avoid painful stings, but do they feel the pain we inflict? A new study suggests they do, a possible clue that…
White scientists are more likely to win a grant from the National Science Foundation than researchers from other racial and ethnic groups, according to an…
If you visited the oceans more than 500 million years ago, you’d find yourself in an alien world. Beings with quilted folds of soft tissue…