Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.

Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

The boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams.

Trainees need to learn how to identify and understand a neuroscience paper’s major takeaways without outsourcing the work to large language models.

Tiny capsules can deliver healthy organelles into animals with Parkinson’s-like and other mitochondria-linked disorders

The glial cells’ activity reliably tracks with freezing, hesitancy and other behaviors reminiscent of anxiety.

Degradation-resistant proteins pass from neurons to glia in a process that may spread protein clumps around the brain, according to a study in mice.

Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”

Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level

John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice