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Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.

US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom identified an enzyme, which they called Pap1, in a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...

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The Advanced Research and Invention Agency is investing £57 million to study climate-manipulating technologies, but says it ...

Former Harvard scientist convicted of making false statements says he wants to do research that benefits humanity — and ...

The country’s publication policies should balance the need to promote science locally with the benefits of disseminating ...

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense ...

Momentum is building for PROTAC treatments that eliminate disease-causing proteins, including those responsible for difficult ...

The Haenyeo divers of the Korean island of Jeju have a genetic variant linked to pain tolerance, as do other people living on ...