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Opinion: A Call for Open Funding Procedures

By Serge P. J. M. Horbach, Lex M. Bouter, and Joeri K. Tijdink | | 5 min read

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University of California, Striking Workers Unions Reach Tentative Deal

By Dan Robitzski | | 2 min read

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Up to 48,000 University of California Academic Workers Go on Strike

By Catherine Offord | | 3 min read

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What’s the Future of Science Twitter?

By Katherine Irving | | 2 min read

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Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

By Hilal A. Lashuel | | 5 min read

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Younger Scientists Are More Innovative, Study Finds

By Katherine Irving | | 5 min read

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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers

By Aman Majmudar | Undark | | 5 min read

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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections

By Jef Akst | | 4 min read

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Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships

By Andy Carstens | | 6 min read

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“Extreme Inequality” Entrenched in Academic Hiring: Study

By Katherine Irving | | 2 min read

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Major, Groundbreaking Increase in Hype in Grant Applications

By Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 3 min read

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AAAS Shutters Its Center for Public Engagement

By Andy Carstens | | 4 min read

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Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

From GLP-1 pioneers to researchers who uncovered the genetic roots of narcolepsy, scientists reveal who they think could receive a call from the Nobel Committee this year.

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Vipers’ Self-Defense Mechanism Could Spark a New Antivenom Strategy

Toxin-inhibiting proteins evolved by rattlesnakes protected mice from lethal venom doses and showed activity against toxins from some other vipers.

Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

Sex-Specific Dioxin Toxicity in a Humanized AHR Model

Explore how species-specific aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling and biological sex influence hepatic responses to environmentally relevant dioxin exposure and inform human health risk assessment.

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Federal Research Grant Awards Fall to a Six-Year Low

An independent grant tracker's analysis of NIH's own award records shows the agency has issued fewer grant awards this fiscal year than in any of the past six.

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

Explore how blood-based biomarkers perform across Alzheimer’s disease stages, including AIBL Study findings comparing p-Tau217 and other markers against amyloid-beta and tau PET reference standards.

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Reduce synthesis-related impurities and support target recognition with gRNA purification

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls Teems With Mysterious Microbial Life

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.

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Evaluating Blood Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Staging

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Oncology Researchers Gain AI Cancer Tools in One Platform

Two Paige tools, powered by the Virchow pathology foundation model, are now available within a single image management workspace for oncology research.