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Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth's range, which extended down into Central America....

Deeply divided Supreme Court lets NIH grant terminations continue

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. It...

New executive order puts all grants under political control

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any...

Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

Separately, Trump v. Casa blocked the use of a national injunction against illegal activity. So, while the government's actions have been determined to be illegal,...

Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

Rare success The researchers spent time ensuring that the enzymes they had were modifying the methylation as expected, and that development started as usual. Their...

Microsoft lays out its path to useful quantum computing

So, the paper describes how some logical operations can be performed relatively easily, while a few others require manipulations of the error correction scheme in...

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

All of which would seem to call for the leadership of US science organizations to press the case for the importance of science funding to...

Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they have limited connections to elsewhere. The only sources of external...

After Harvard says no to feds, $2.2 billion of research funding put on hold

The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to...

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates

Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn't especially interested in funding research. Before January's end, major science agencies...

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