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17 février
07h01
How do busy bees avoid overheating from flying?
Erik Stokstad
New measurements could help predict pollinators’ ability to withstand climate change
11h00
If AI discovers a drug, who gets the money?
Celina Zhao
Two intellectual property lawyers on why questions of AI inventorship and profit remain wide open
11h00
Giant viruses hijack their hosts’ protein factories
Catherine Offord
Researchers identify a complex that hands mimivirus control of protein synthesis in infected amoebae
16 février
07h00
A plant vaccine’ takes on corn rootworm, a fearsome pest
Erik Stokstad
Inoculating soil with pink microbes could help reduce the use of toxic insecticides.
13 février
04h32
Another NIH institute loses its director
Jocelyn Kaiser
Health department declines to renew Lindsey Criswell, head of arthritis institute, to another 5-year term
02h35
These scientists saw a future in public service until Trump’s massacre’ hit
Jocelyn KaiserKatie LanginErik Stokstad
Last year’s mass firings of probationary federal workers sent researchers’ lives into turmoil
02h20
EPA sidesteps science in repeal of U.S. greenhouse gas rules
Paul Voosen
Agency’s attempt to overturn 2009 endangerment finding appears headed for Supreme Court
12 février
02h00
A vanishing star births a black hole without the fireworks
Daniel Clery
Failed supernova candidate points to a stealthy pathway of stellar collapse
02h00
Boosting origin of life theory, RNA comes close to copying itself
Robert F. Service
Some RNA molecules can create their own mirror images, suggesting similar molecules could have sparked life
12h55
NSF’s flagship fellowship program is rejecting applicants without peer review
Jeffrey Mervis
Students seeking graduate research scholarships speculate that biology is being disfavored