The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

The genomes of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites offer a unique opportunity to probe why some genes with sex-specific functions are lost while others are maintained. In the androdiecious species, Caenor...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Susana Wadgymar, a biology professor and evolutionary ecologist at Davidson College, has been honored by the Ecological Society of America with the 2026 W.S. Cooper Award. Her groundbreaking co-author...

Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the comparative biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes. Apply by June 1, 2026, for full consideration. Click HERE for more information.  Lab...

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

Abstract. Why natural populations harbor high additive genetic variance for fitness remains an evolutionary puzzle. Connallon and Czuppon (2026) show that

An ambitious ‘refaunation’ project is bringing the much-loved birds and other lost species back to the city’s national park

Structures on cassowaries’ skulls fluoresce under UV light, hinting at a hidden visual signal

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

from the pages of Rhody Today: URI’s Jason Kolbe studying hurricanes as a source of episodic natural selection Storm study shows adaptive selection in southeast lizards A new study led by URI’s Jason Kolbe examines adaptive selection in Anolis lizards in the southeastern U.S. (Photos / J. Kolbe) KINGSTON, R.I. – Dec. 11, 2025 – How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection?

Tongue twisters. Frosty holidays. Scandals. Big ol’ rodent butts. Let’s talk groundhogs with UCLA conservationist, field biologist, professor and Marmotologist, Dr. Daniel Blumstein. We cover what bro...

US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.

Abstract Coevolution requires reciprocal genotype-by-genotype (G × G) interactions for fitness, which occur when the fitness of a genotype in one species depends on the genotype it interacts with in a...

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.