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What will the Trump administration’s proposed changes to federal science spending mean for biomedical research?
A proposed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule would allow activities that harm the habitats of protected species.
RFK Jr. has said the U.S. should rid its food supply of synthetic ingredients. How would that affect public health?
In the intervening years, he tried numerous forms of therapy, medication, brain stimulation, and residential treatments — all ...
Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
Proposed cuts for prescribed burning could rekindle a debate over fire’s historical role in managing some forests.
Officials asked agency staff to draft a rule that would limit data collection. The move could set a global precedent.
In the summer of 2022, Abdel Abdellaoui was set to give a keynote at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research. But when he learned he’d be sharing a speaker roster ...
CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. “One could make a strong case that NOAA was under-resourced and under-staffed before these cuts, so this is ...
Sexual monogamy is just what it sounds like: The restriction of sexual intercourse to within a bonded pair. Social monogamy, also known as economic monogamy, describes the bonding itself, a strong, ...