The rise in the amount of federal money requested through research grants is due to a rise in the overall number of applicants.
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The root system of a tree species is genetically different than the leaves of that individual, potentially modifying scientists’ understanding of evolution.
Fossils from northern Kenya point to a new human species that lived in Africa nearly 2 million years ago.
Two whole genome duplications boosted the complexity of the ancestor of all vertebrates, but also introduced potential for disease.
Researchers breed fruit flies that, after 40 generations of conditioning, have acquired the ability to react to numbers.
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.
The rate of evolution is affected for millenia after mass extinctions.
The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust announces that it will begin sanctioning researchers who do not submit manuscripts to the public UK PubMed Central database.
The Senate approves an increase of about 0.3 percent for the 2013 NIH budget, but the Department of Energy doesn’t fare as well.
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