Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says
Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists’US politics live – l...
Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air
Trump told Mark Carney ‘you got to stop these fires from coming in’ as experts say wildfires symptom of climate crisisScientists have reacted with inc...
Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes
Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason fo...
Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover
Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was closeSperm whales p...
Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn
A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coastUp to 13 million people in the UK fac...
‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointeesIt was a late Friday afternoon in Boston whe...
'Superworms' help scientists with a vexing task: Cleaning animal specimens
The larvae of a beetle native to South and Central America, the critters are the perfect solution to sticky problem: How to prepare an animal skeleton...
Sale of multimillion-dollar T rex skeleton is big headache for scientists
Palaeontologists warn before auction at Sotheby’s in New York that super-rich collectors are harming researchWith its dagger-like teeth, bone-crushing...
Dolphins increasingly rely on trawlers for food in overfished Adriatic, say scientists
In one area 76% of fishing boats were followed, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parentsBottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic are in...
Scientists fear seabird die-off as El Niño looms: ‘We don’t know how bad this is will get’
Many seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler watersWithin minutes of walking on a San...
‘Beautiful blobs’: synthetic life a step closer as scientists make cells using lab-made DNA
Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuelResearchers claim they are cl...
FDA scientists flag concerns with peptides, the trendy molecules RFK Jr. supports
Documents reviewing the research on peptides note lack of good evidence of efficacy or safety. Yet an FDA panel will consider easing access to them la...
Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce betw...
European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say
Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stressThe heatwave scorching western Europe is th...
Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike in Western Australia
Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Pilbara regionA meteorite that struck Earth th...
Brown skuas and giant petrels rarely make landfall. When they were found in WA, scientists feared ‘bad news’ for wildlife
Experts thought H5N1 bird flu would more likely reach Australia’s north. But an arrival from Antarctica had always been possibleGet our breaking news ...
‘The purpose of the rule is fascism’: scientists fight back against planned Trump research cuts
Stand Up for Science founder says proposal to control how grants are spent would ‘dismantle US science ecosystem’While waiting to board her flight hom...
In Ancient Pits Near Stonehenge, Scientists See Hints of Solstice Ritual
British archaeologists may have found the remains of a site where people celebrated the solstice thousands of years ago, a few miles from the famed st...
Globally significant volcanic event formed Giant’s Causeway, scientists find
Geochronologists say Antrim coastline’s basalt columns developed over 5.5m years – 8m less than thoughtFor centuries, the tale has been passed from ge...
Blood test can find thousands of genetic conditions in pregnancy, say scientists
Technique that examines fragments of foetal DNA in mother’s bloodstream could limit need for invasive screening, according to researchersA new materna...
‘Super El Niño’ is officially here, scientists say. What can we expect?
Experts say climate pattern could supercharge extreme weather events and push temperatures to record highsEL Niño has officially arrived, US officials...
