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In turbulent economic times, the prime minister’s Liberal party has promised funding to attract research talent to Canada.

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Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

A test for lead contamination in water, a project to measure the oldest light in the Universe and a study of heat and drought ...

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.