The rate of evolution is affected for millenia after mass extinctions.
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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.
A Texas cancer institute is taking a second look at the largest grant it ever awarded after concerns were raised that the proposal never received proper scientific review.
A petition asking for online, readable publication of all government-funded research is making its way to the White House.
Two 9,000-year-old skeletons will be held by University of California, San Diego, officials—rather than turned over to American Indians for reburial—until a lawsuit is settled.
The University of Michigan is funding exploratory ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries with $20,000 a pop.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
Aging satellites and NASA funding cuts threaten to put a serious dent in scientists’ ability to observe Earth’s processes from above.
Researchers investigate a microorganism that may warrant a new eukaryotic kingdom in the classification of life.