Science

03/07/2025

This week, a special issue in Science Advances on highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/41SjywF

03/07/2025

Staring deep into space and far back in time, a team of astronomers may have spotted a galaxy full of stars made from only the primordial gas created in the Big Bang.

Short-cut method pinpoints a galaxy apparently formed from just hydrogen and helium

03/07/2025

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. https://scim.ag/4kyx8fC

03/07/2025

Researchers across the United States and beyond who study transgender health are learning that their National Institutes of Health grants are being abruptly canceled.

Science has identified more than two dozen halted grants amid Trump’s transgender crackdown, right as NIH suspends its own researchers who worked on topic

03/07/2025

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were among the first to receive termination notices last month as President Donald Trump’s administration moved to fire tens of thousands of probationary employees.

Now, those workers could soon return to their jobs—at least temporarily—after an independent federal board issued a 45-day stay to their termination, finding “reasonable grounds” to believe that USDA fired them illegally.

Temporary ruling brings relief, but could be followed by a new wave of firings

03/07/2025

"I took a drastic step outside my comfort zone to sign up for an open mic event."

Check out this recent Working Life: https://scim.ag/41evmYq

03/06/2025

Researchers have genetically altered a mouse to express traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, including a long, coarsely textured coat, to create the woolly mouse.

And before you ask, no, it doesn’t have little tusks.

Birth of rodent with coat genetically modified to resemble the extinct species raises big ethical and conservation concerns

03/06/2025

In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/4i3AFAZ

03/06/2025

Labs rely on National Institutes of Health funding to cover facility and administrative costs. A federal judge has blocked a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to slash those payments.

Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus

03/06/2025

It’s not clear what a Supreme Court decision will mean for thousands of foreign aid contracts the U.S. government says it has already terminated.

Decision is a victory for organizations that provide humanitarian assistance, but its impact is unclear

03/06/2025

Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the National Institutes of Health, appeared before a Senate panel yesterday.

Stanford health economist Jay Bhattacharya says he’s open to new studies of debunked link between vaccines and autism

03/06/2025

Early-onset colorectal cancer is expected to become the leading cause of death in ages 20 to 49 in the U.S. by 2030.

Research is urgently needed to better detect and treat patients, argues this : https://scim.ag/4blTCMJ

03/05/2025

Don't miss this week's issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Researchers create a promising oral vaccine for norovirus and interrogate vaccine immunity in humans, improved tissue grafts help repair damaged cartilage in a clinical trial, and more.

https://scim.ag/4h98uzA

03/05/2025

By squeezing a packet of laser light into a tiny sliver of a second, physicists can produce superintense pulses that, if only for an instant, deliver as much power as 1 million nuclear plants. Such petawatt lasers have enabled scientists to manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms.

Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that could also have spectacular applications. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ha1G4o

03/05/2025

While his neighbors frantically fled from their oncoming doom, one man stayed in bed. For whatever reason, he didn’t join the other 2000 residents of Herculaneum—the ancient Roman city just north of Pompeii—as they ran from erupting Mount Vesuvius.

The first scorching cloud of ash passed through the city so quickly, it turned his brain into black, glasslike shards. Now, a new analysis of these shards offers clues about how the man and his neighbors perished in 79 C.E.

New analysis of Mount Vesuvius victim supports claim that an ash cloud was the stealthy destroyer of Roman city

03/05/2025

In the latest sign of upheaval at the National Institutes of Health, renowned geneticist and former agency Director Francis Collins has announced his retirement in a resignation statement that made a plea for defending NIH and its staff.

Geneticist abruptly announced his resignation over the weekend

03/05/2025

The tariffs imposed by the United States on its three largest trading partners could not only drive up the cost of goods for U.S. consumers, but also hit researchers by raising prices for scientific equipment.

China, Canada, and Mexico are major suppliers of essential scientific items

03/05/2025

Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first woman to receive a and the first person to receive the honor twice.

In 2017, explored the dynamics that established Curie as “the most iconic of all female scientists.”

The famous physicist's legacy looms large 150 years after her birth