At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

Scientists are bracing for major changes in the direction of US biomedical research as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracies, gains control ...

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that ...

and sometimes more senior research scientists. In most cases their salaries are covered, in whole or in part, by “soft money”—meaning, if the grants go away, their jobs do too. The grants also pay the ...

The winning essays are: The sounds of music: Tracing memories and pathways through research and resistance Retooling science: Transforming tools into instruments of equity as a Black physician ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

UC San Diego faculty members Vashan Wright and Xiaolong Wang have been selected to receive 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, a ...

Universities that do breakthrough-level studies are scrambling to understand the effects as their funding agencies slash ...

Blaufuss, research scientist and particle astrophysicist in the department of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in an accompanying article. Blaufuss was not involved in the study.

Or does your consciousness — or spirit — live on?Some people who have clinically died — but have then been resuscitated — ...