Science
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An uncertain path
After the shocks of 2025, Malawi is rethinking its relationship to foreign aid—and trying to protect dramatic gains in maternal health
Regaining your voice
AI speech neuroprostheses can restore day-to-day communication after neurological injury
In a billion-dollar gamble, NSF bets on research with an economic payoff
New X-Labs initiative aims to develop breakthrough technologies—but academics aren’t sure they are welcome
NSF bans almost all research collaborations with China
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
Production and spectroscopy of cold radioactive molecules
Molecules with heavy, radioactive nuclei promise extreme sensitivity to fundamental nuclear and particle physics. However, these nuclei are available in limited quantities, which challenges their use...
Social calibration of sycophantic AI
Dendritic cells control tertiary lymphoid structure development and maintenance in cancer
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are associated with immunotherapy response, yet the mechanisms controlling their formation and maintenance remain unclear. Using spatial transcriptomics and multipl...
The Therabot will see you now
Generative artificial intelligence can scale precision evidence-based psychotherapy
Bringing radioactive molecules to the table
A compact source of radioactive molecules could enable new tests of fundamental physics
Geometrically driven reversible solid-liquid phase transition at the atomic scale
Atomic-resolution observation of the liquid-solid phase transition within a geometrically confined nanocluster provides fundamental insights into heterogeneous nucleation mechanisms. In this work, usi...
Erratum for the Research Article “Elastic ice microfibers”
Reprogramming synthesis
General-purpose artificial intelligence agents are at work in the materials chemistry laboratory
Seabed mining requires timely governance
Spain’s largest research body confronts its dark past
Spanish National Research Council has published the stories of some 500 staff purged under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship