Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test

Observers see signs that Science Foundation Ireland is shifting industry focus implemented after 2008 recession

The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year

Commonwealth Fusion Systems announces site for compact reactor

Researchers omitted data suggesting child mortality went up in the spring of 2020

Study finds most chats don’t end when people want them to

Activists fault agency for not directly addressing funding disparity for Black researchers

Bispecific antibodies show promise in mice against hard-to-treat tumors

Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs

The long-awaited launch of Amazonia-1 is a major test for Brazilian science

Finds suggest Roman-era owners formed strong emotional bonds with their companion animals

Artificial intelligence generates a story about a robot trying to understand humanity

The shift will help researchers who change their names midcareer, including transgender scientists

Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents

Study explains why ancient carnivores were tiny or huge, not medium-size

With a surge in InSAR data, researchers are monitoring slipping faults, flowing ice, inflating volcanoes, and sinking croplands

On this week’s show: InSAR satellites see centimeter-size changes in Earth’s surface, and generating random numbers with a laser on a chip

Genetic evidence suggests microbes began to use oxygen about 3.1 billion years ago, long before the precious gas was plentiful

Hungry fungus recruits bacteria and their viruses to snag prey

Alarm call may trick females into thinking a predator is near

Prolific researchers found to publish up to 40% of some journals’ content

Choanoflagellates suggest the first animals could morph between swimming and crawling forms

New chemical reactors don't require fossil fuels and may even consume greenhouse gas

Ancient DNA suggests people—and their dogs—migrated to the Americas more than 16,000 years ago

Rocks drilled from crater floor could reveal how wet Mars was—and for how long