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New peer-review trial lets grant applicants evaluate each other’s proposals
Having grant applicants become referees could help to address the peer-review crisis in research funding.Credit: Wong Yu Liang/Getty Around 85% of researchers who applied for
researcher resilience in the face of war
Hussein Al-Ajrami, who ran his own biotechnology company in Gaza City, relocated to Cairo in early May, fleeing the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip
Medicine Nobel awarded for gene-regulating ‘microRNAs’
Victor Ambros (left) and Gary Ruvkun (right) discovered microRNA, a type of molecule that helps to regulate gene activity in our cells. Credit: Steve Jennings/Getty
Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence
A robot artist creates paintings of the performers at the 2022 Glastonbury music festival, UK.Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Since their public release less than two years
what will success look like?
A physician meets with a person being treated for mpox at a hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Credit: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg via Getty Mpox
How to keep a president healthy — tips from a former White House doctor
Transforming Presidential Healthcare: Ensuring Comprehensive Care for the Commander in Chief Amid 21st Century Threats Jeffrey Kuhlman Ballast (2024) Physician to the president of the
Believe it or not, this lush landscape is Antarctica
Hummocks of moss cover Ardley Island off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.Credit: Dan Charman A fast-warming region of Antarctica is getting greener with shocking
Claims of fraud plague one of the most-cited neuroscience researchers
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next
The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a mission that will assess how effective humanity could be in protecting Earth from an asteroid
Tuft cells act as regenerative stem cells in the human intestine
Fetal and adult tissues Uninflamed ileum, duodenum and colon were obtained from patients undergoing tumour-resection surgery; tissues were collected at an appropriate distance from the