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A new program will provide 150 early-career scientists committed to advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity up to $8.6 million each.

The roar of nearby boat engines alters how fish care for and protect their young, resulting in fewer successful nests and smaller offspring, a study finds.

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

The new fossil from Laos helps answer the question of how some people from Oceania carry DNA from the ancient hominin.

While malaria control strategies have focused on mosquitoes’ nocturnal activity, almost one-third of bites occur while the sun is up, a new study estimates.

The presence and spread of new, more-infectious and immune-evading variants show that the coronavirus is not done mutating.

Two glands increase steroid production after female California two-spot octopuses mate, a study finds. Those hormones may be responsible for the animals’ self-destructive behavior.

A survey showed that 91 percent of the reef experienced bleaching despite this year’s cooler, wetter conditions associated with the La Niña weather pattern.

Researchers engineered strands of RNA that can link amino acids together, suggesting a way that RNA and proteins may have emerged together to create the earliest forms of life.

Her research showed that communication via sign language is as neurologically complex as spoken language. 

The behavior is the first example of a mammal mimicking a more-dangerous species.

US adults are now only eligible for the vaccine under certain circumstances.

Research identifies 10 types of dopamine-making neurons, one of which seems to die off during the disease.

The launch of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability—the first new school at the university in 70 years—comes thanks to a $1.1 billion gift from a venture capitalist and his wife.

Research finds that a dog’s behavior has little to do with its genes.

The study estimates that one-fifth of reptile species worldwide are at risk of extinction.

Use of the drugs in children under the age of two was associated with lower antibody levels after the jabs—perhaps, researchers suggest, due to microbiome alterations.

The discovery could add weight to the hypothesis that the building blocks of life on Earth originally came from space, but some scientists note the possibility of contamination.

Laboratory experiments find that Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia can congregate on microplastic beads and fibers, suggesting they might make their way into and around the world’s oceans by hitching rides on tiny bits of trash.