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Trump Makes Sweeping HIV Research and Grant Cuts: 'Setting Us Back Decades'

Trump Makes Sweeping HIV Research and Grant Cuts: 'Setting Us Back Decades'

Termination of at least 145 grants will decimate progress toward eliminating epidemic, scientists say

European Universities Offer "scientific Asylum" to US Researchers Fleeing Trump's Cuts

European Universities Offer "scientific Asylum" to US Researchers Fleeing Trump's Cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Royal Society Urged to Expel Elon Musk As Fellows Sign Open Letter

Royal Society Urged to Expel Elon Musk As Fellows Sign Open Letter

More than 1,700 academics complain about X owner's behaviour, citing his 'assault on scientific research'.

US Scientists Feeling "Stress and Fear" As Sweeping Trump Orders Hit Funding

US Scientists Feeling "Stress and Fear" As Sweeping Trump Orders Hit Funding

Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders.

The Science Behind Winning a Nobel Prize? Being a Man from a Wealthy Family

The Science Behind Winning a Nobel Prize? Being a Man from a Wealthy Family

A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%.

Scientists Criticise UN Agency's Failure to Withdraw Livestock Emissions Report

Scientists Criticise UN Agency's Failure to Withdraw Livestock Emissions Report

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of "serious distortions" in report

Ig Nobel Prize Goes to Team Who Found Mammals Can Breathe Through Anuses

Ig Nobel Prize Goes to Team Who Found Mammals Can Breathe Through Anuses

Scientific research on pigeon missiles and dead trout also win at awards for amusing studies with serious implications

Cosmos Magazine's AI-Generated Articles Are Bad for Trust in Science

Cosmos Magazine's AI-Generated Articles Are Bad for Trust in Science

Rolling out an AI experiment with a lack of transparency is at best ignorant, and at worst dangerous.

Work on Synthetic Human Embryos to Get Code of Practice in UK

Work on Synthetic Human Embryos to Get Code of Practice in UK

Code will remove grey area around stem cell-based technology and ensure responsible research, say scientists

How's This for a Bombshell - The US Must Make AI Its Next Manhattan Project

How's This for a Bombshell - The US Must Make AI Its Next Manhattan Project

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

Moon's Resources Could Be "Destroyed by Thoughtless Exploitation", Nasa Warned

Moon's Resources Could Be "Destroyed by Thoughtless Exploitation", Nasa Warned

Astronomers say launch of dozens of lunar probes could jeopardise research and valuable resources such as sea ice in craters

Hallucinate, AI, Authenticity: Dictionaries' Words of the Year Make Our Biggest Fears Clear

Hallucinate, AI, Authenticity: Dictionaries' Words of the Year Make Our Biggest Fears Clear

In a world of chatbots and influencers, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Collins are in rare agreement.

'Violent Colonialist' Magellan is Unfit to Keep His Place in the Night Sky, Say Astronomers

'Violent Colonialist' Magellan is Unfit to Keep His Place in the Night Sky, Say Astronomers

Indigenous peoples already had their own names for the galaxies named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer.

'It Only Makes the News when the Toilets Stop Working': Has the 25-year-old International Space Station Been a Waste of Space?

'It Only Makes the News when the Toilets Stop Working': Has the 25-year-old International Space Station Been a Waste of Space?

The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Today's poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

'A Huge Relief': Scientists React to Hopes of UK Rejoining EU Horizon Scheme

'A Huge Relief': Scientists React to Hopes of UK Rejoining EU Horizon Scheme

Scientists including the physicist Brian Cox have reacted with a mixture of caution, anger and relief that the UK appears set to rejoin the EU’s flagship £85bn Horizon science research programme after a protracted Brexit row.

The Dark Universe: Can a Scientist Battling Long Covid Unlock the Mysteries of the Cosmos?

The Dark Universe: Can a Scientist Battling Long Covid Unlock the Mysteries of the Cosmos?

Since being laid low with the virus more than a year ago, Catherine Heymans can only operate in half-hour bursts. But her work could still change the way we understand the universe

What Will We Eat in a Post-1.5C World? Podcast

What Will We Eat in a Post-1.5C World? Podcast

We now know that global temperatures are likely to temporarily exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the next five years. Breaching this crucial threshold will have serious consequences, including on our food. In the second of a special series of episodes looking at what a future world might look like, science editor Ian Sample explores how our diets could change as the world heats up, exploring climate-resilient vegetables, trying out mealworms, and discovering how to make flour out of microbes

'Too Greedy': Mass Walkout at Global Science Journal over 'Unethical' Fees

'Too Greedy': Mass Walkout at Global Science Journal over 'Unethical' Fees

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon