USDA shelved strategy for inoculating birds after the Health secretary criticized the idea.

The number of local news desert counties in the U.S. shot up by 26 in the last year, the largest one-year rise in at least five years, according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2026.

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...

Approved grants face extra reviews and delays, and observers fear a behind-the-scenes installation of proposed political reviews.

For two days, X has been deluged by claims of a sharp decline in Russian “bot” activity — supposedly a result of Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centers this week. These claims have been promot...

People who have taken experimental peptides, such as BPC-157, complain of migraines, eye pain, fatigue, and more. Learning whether these popular but unproven drugs are to blame may become harder if Ro...

A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, “superb” (The Atlantic), and “entirely fresh” (Rolling Stone) journey through...

A team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world.

Abstract. Scientific capacity built over generations is being weakened by abrupt political disruption just as discovery is becoming faster, more convergent

Revised guidance warns of the serious health risks, particularly for children

DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI and data centers, a Post analysis found.

Concern 9 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later

Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout.

For two centuries, we called it the “Stone Age” because rocks don’t rot. A stunning trove of 60,000-year-old wooden tools from a Spanish cliff proves Neanderthals weren’t knuckle-dragging cave brutes—

America’s employers must stop acting helpless in the face of health care industry profiteering, Chris Deacon says.

My mother has forgotten she wants to die. For as long as I can remember she has been, not exactly planning it, but asserting her right to control her manner of death. When our family gathered for an E...

- White House unveils $6B science plan - DHS proposes new OPT fee - 'Super intelligence' replaces AI

Last week, RFK Jr. and his minions opened a "vaccine injury clinic" at the NIH. With no budget, structure, or leadership announced, the program appears to be a sham in service of RFK Jr.'s war on vacc

A NIH proposal to conceal reviewer rankings of investigator-initiated research grants is ripe for misuse & demands a collective response (by October 13).

John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists

One of the most bizarre things over the last few years is how two guys, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, bumbling around cosplaying as "free speech" experts, have done tremendous damage to free speech. After Elon Musk brought them in to report on the so-called "Twitter Files," the two of them spun up nonsense tales...

Browse 42 CFR Part 52h: Scientific Peer Review of Research Grant… in the current eCFR, with source notes and navigation. Updated through Oct. 5, 2026.

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic

‘Havana Syndrome’ a decade later: what we know.

The law firm’s March memo on data-center debt was making the rounds in recent days, laying out worst-case scenarios for the AI buildout.

This story has been updated. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is investigating nine universities for alleged fraud related to visas

The Incredible Hulk, the Thing, He-Man, Superman—these cartoon heroes must fulfill some kind of longing. And as yearnings go, it’s an old one: the Hebrew

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

Objectives Building on work on the civilian justice system, this study evaluates whether presidential pardons politicize the military justice system in the United States and perceptions of two types...