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Critics say new policy violates federal law, but others say agency is within its rights to change its inspection procedures

Scientists test differently colored lights on bridges and in parks to help stem the "insect apocalypse"

Simulations identify likely early human migration routes

Open letter asks for better access to genomic and epidemiological databases

Worries about AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines may slow plan to immunize the world

In 2020, the country had relatively few coronavirus deaths. Scientists need more information to figure whether this was real or a mirage

Agency declines import permit, claiming crippled adenovirus that serves as vaccine is active in second doses

Eric Lander faced pointed questions from Democrats and Republicans

Upcoming presidential election could stall efforts to restore Lake Urmia

Tropical rainforests, with their staggering biodiversity, are a likely cradle of dangerous new infections

On this week’s show: Using renewable energy to charge “gravity batteries,” and how feral donkeys and horses engineer the desert

Agency gives drug company 30 days to post data from trial completed 4 years ago.

Nanoscale textures jettison pesky mineral deposits, a plague on power plants

Android alerts will first run in New Zealand and Greece

Editor of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability says website hasn’t been updated recently

New National Research and Innovation Agency will have broad powers to fund, execute, and control science

New observations point to small solar flares as the heat source

Critics question protocols and ethics of parties, concerts, and sports events that rely on testing to keep people safe

Organ transplant recipients appear less protected, but people with autoimmune disease and cancer can have a strong immune response

Disentangling the roots of survivors’ cognitive deficits is no easy task

Thick skin of neutrons on nucleus suggests nuclear matter is relatively stiff

Letters to parents and staff echo unsupported claims that vaccinated people may be “transmitting something” to others that cause health prob...

Geographic distribution joins gender and race as area of concern in selecting each National Academy of Sciences class

In the Arctic Sea, trails of sea sponge bits reveal the creatures are creeping

But observers await repeat of 77% efficacy in larger African phase 3 trial of Oxford vaccine