Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

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Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but ...

The UN Ocean Conference promises to be a rare event at which most of the key players are in the same location and free of the ...

As it awaits a court ruling, the US National Science Foundation has paused its attempt to cap indirect-cost payments on ...

Collaborations between privately run foundations provide an opportunity to fund risky science that governments cannot take on ...

The only gene-editing therapy currently on the market is a CRISPR–Cas9-based treatment for two blood disorders, sickle-cell ...

The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ...

Since Trump came to office, more than 800 existing research NIH grants have been terminated. Grant reviews have been held up ...

A new machine-learning tool can predict which individuals are at high risk for developing postpartum depression, an ...

When given information about its human opponents, the large language model GPT-4 was able to make particularly convincing ...