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Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal

Arrests of scientists over smuggled samples add to US border anxiety

Can AI build a virtual cell? Scientists race to model life’s smallest unit

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‘I didn’t know someone could pursue astronomy as a career’

Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli

Harvard vs Trump: what this epic battle means for science

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Plagues of locusts could be avoided by using compounds that suppress swarming

Mixed plastics turned into valuable chemicals

Neuronal transfer of mitochondria to tumour cells promotes cancer spread

Droplets of three electrons behave like a liquid

Computer-vision research is hiding its role in creating ‘Big Brother’ technologies

Nanoscale heat transport tracked at interface between semiconductor materials

Change of venue: fission-yeast cell-division cues actually initiate in the nucleus

An aspirational approach to planetary futures

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Coherent bunching of anyons and dissociation in an interference experiment

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