Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
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Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Last minute legislation passed by Congress to avert immediate across-the-board budget cuts will not prevent major reductions in research spending.
Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
Fungi in 100 million year-old seafloor sediments could possess novel antibiotics.
A type of scallop expels water and waste through a sort of cough that could reveal clues about water quality.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
An all-female species, distantly related to flatworms, steals all of genetic material it needs to diversify its genome.