Peer Bork, one of the most influential computational biologists of his generation, died on 16 January 2026 from natural causes (EMBL 2026). He was 62 years

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Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genome Privacy (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

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.

Directed evolution is a powerful approach for enzyme engineering, but conventional workflows use only a fraction of the information generated during experimental screening. Typically, only top-perform...

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

Incendiamoeba cascadensis may survive in volcanic lakes thanks to a static blanket that shields its proteins from the heat

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Overview: Native Forward Scholars Fund announced it will invest the full $50 million unrestricted gift it received from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott into Native higher education, allocating $10 mill...

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Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the