Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

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Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

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A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever ...

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New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data.

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Around 40% of people who filled out a survey about working at US Antarctic research bases in the past two years reported ...