The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

Marine eDNA Seagoing Technician - 139086 | Careers at UC San Diego

Passive capture of eDNA can be used as a tool for citizen scientist SCUBA divers to supplement visual surveys for marine species detection and is particularly useful for species that are rare or visu...

With the rapid uptake of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding for a wide range of conservation and management uses, there is a growing need for guidance and best practices for species identification...

The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

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Write today and urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Your message to Congress will help protect NC...

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‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

A team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, are working to explore the bottom of the ocean in an effort to discover scientific breakt...

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

U.S. innovation and global leadership is at risk.

Scientists are far from knowing all of the complexities of Earth's ocean. With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know, like its role as one of the world's largest carbon sinks and how ...

AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards an audience that deeply misunderstands what a P...

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

Our understanding of marine ecosystems and ability to manage them sustainably has come from multidisciplinary observations made repeatedly over long periods of time. These long-term ecosystem observa...

Marker gene sequencing (“metabarcoding”) is the primary sequencing approach currently used for molecular biodiversity surveys, but this approach is taxonomically limited and hampered by amplification ...

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

Researchers left at US climate agency say drastic cuts could leave air ‘not breathable’ and water ‘not drinkable’

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund