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An arsenal of potential treatments takes aim at proteins key to the virus’ life cycle

Find from Iberian site suggests women as well as men wielded power

$1.9 trillion measure expected to become law by Friday

Study sponsor, Bluebird Bio, is seeking regulators’ approval to restart trials

Approach could lead to safer and more precise chronic pain treatments

Rival designs for next-generation machines pit Yankee brawn versus continental sophistication

Analysis of 32 countries finds differences between national guidance and Europe-wide code

Scientists live in fear of losing access to the GISAID database

Protein analysis technique could reveal how other old parchments were used

Device gives scientists rare glimpse of what’s going on inside an animal’s head

Rich countries have ordered billions of doses more than needed for their populations

Pandemic might derail careers of women scientists, particularly those with caregiving responsibilities

Life and plate tectonics may have emerged on a planet drowned in water that was rejected by the mantle

Rick Bright takes new position at the Rockefeller Foundation

A governmentwide shortage of tech skills is seen as threat to national security

Ability may have evolved as a way to get rid of parasites

Research spending set to grow by at least 7% annually through 2025

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar data have transformed earth science

Method of studying “microdosing” could offer new routes for drug research

Surgery side effect linked to macrophages may result from repair gone awry

Warming falls, not habitat loss, is a key source of decline

On this week’s show: A 2000-year-old pet cemetery shows how people care for animals in ancient times, and the surprising find that Caenorhab...

Challenges include nuclear fuel debris and more a million tons of contaminated water

After 10 years advising survivors of the Fukushima disaster about radiation, Masaharu Tsubokura thinks the evacuations posed a far bigger he...

New census could refine efforts to protect reefs