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Cancer researchers work in an NIH laboratory in a black and white photo.
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The National Institutes of Health is vital to research efforts to improve health, but proposed funding cuts for 2026 threaten the agency’s future.
A mountain representing the number of English-language papers published by English-native speaking male researchers from high-income countries is shown. The different variables that aid people in publishing more papers are represented by ski lifts helping them up the mountain. The figures represent different groups of people with different advantages and disadvantages for publishing a scientific paper in English.

How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity

Scientific journals sit open on top of each other in a stack.

PhD Data Misuse Sparks Retractions, Ethics Probe, and Lab Fallout

Illustration of four people seated at a table with pads of paper and laptop on it. A woman on the left of the table in a red shirt, depicting senior staff writer Emma Dauster, has a speech bubble over her head with a picture depicting a shark and orca with “vs” in between them, showing an idea for a video on battles between apex predators.

Sparking Curiosity Through Science Communication

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Impersonation Scandals Shake Academic Publishing

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Postdoc Portrait: Abdullahi Usman

Vector illustration of several cartoon people in business attire leaping over and stranded by several cracks in the ground, illustrating the obstacles faced by early career researchers by recent funding and career development changes at the NIH.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

A picture of Payel Ganguly, a postdoc at Harvard Medical School.

Postdoc Portrait: Payel Ganguly

A gold medal depicting Alfred Nobel's side profile balances on a wooden surface in front of a blurred blue background.

Who Will Win the 2025 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions

 A paper protest sign reads “Save Our Scientists”, signifying the crisis that US scientists are facing due to severe federal research funding cuts.

American Chemical Society Pledges 2.5 Million Dollars to Help Students Graduate

Illustration of Matteo Farinella holding a comics book while working on his laptop. He sits at a desk covered with various books and loose papers.

Neurocomics Bring Science to Life Through Visual Storytelling

Illustration showing Ushma Neill talking about student housing in a board meeting (left), updating summer programs and courses (middle), and sharing advice to a mentee (right).

An Accidental Career Path into Academic Administration

Two people sit across from each other at a desk looking at a computer monitor with a simple data figure. The farther person thinks about multiple more complicated data sets.

Unearthing Stories from the Data Ecosystem

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An old medical illustration features the ear in the center with nerves of the head shown in yellow.

The Ear as a Therapeutic Gateway to the Vagus Nerve

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Universe 25 Experiment

3D illustration showing three differently colored semi-translucent cells, representing different T cell subtypes, on a black background. A purple cell is in the front on the right, a red cell is on the left, and a blue cell sits behind the red one.

T Cell Nomenclature Gets an Update

A yellow-colored frozen frog.

Freeze-Tolerant Frogs Power Organ Cryopreservation Strategies

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Skip the Wait for Protein Stability Data with Aunty

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Thermo Scientific X and S Series General Purpose Centrifuges

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January 2026, Issue 1

What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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Skip the Wait for Protein Stability Data with Aunty

Skip the Wait for Protein Stability Data with Aunty

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An Automated DNA-to-Data Framework for Production-Scale Sequencing

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Exploring Cellular Organization with Spatial Proteomics

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Organoid Origins and How to Grow Them

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