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Can Italy’s new science funding agency overcome a thin budget and worries over political meddling?, Science
Measles erases immune ‘memory’ for other diseases, Nature
Clubby and ‘disturbing’ citation behavior by researchers in Italy has surged, Science
Opioid prescriptions: Striking differences in behaviour point to ways to combat abuse, Nature
Mexican science suffers under debilitating budget cuts, Nature
The biologist using insect eggs to overturn evolutionary doctrine, Nature
World’s most invasive mosquito nearly eradicated from two islands in China, Nature
Facing up to injustice in genome science, Nature
Brain signals translated into speech using artificial intelligence, Nature
New genetic ‘risk score’ could predict obesity odds, Science
Zapping elderly brains with electricity improves short-term memory—for almost an hour, Science
Protecting monarch butterflies' winter home could mean moving hundreds of trees, Nature (also featured in Scientific American)
Italian scientists protest funding for vaccine-safety investigation, Nature
A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony, Nature
Share of African American men going into medicine hits historic low, Nature
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer, Nature (also featured in the German and Italian editions of Scientific American)
Peer-reviewed homeopathy study sparks uproar in Italy, Nature
Plan to dismantle Puerto Rico’s statistics agency gets green light, Nature
Yellowstone's grizzlies under threat from controversial hunting proposal, Nature
Gender bias goes away when grant reviewers focus on the science, Nature
Sexual-minority students more likely to abandon science majors, Nature
Polar bears are wasting away in a changing climate, Nature
How brittlestars 'see' without eyes, Nature (also featured in Scientific American)
In thousands of brain scans, group seeks clues to diseases, Science
Do bacteriophage guests protect human health?, Science
Cosmic rays reveal unknown void in the Great Pyramid of Giza, Science
Cats that behave like liquids, tampons that play music, and other ‘advances’ honored with Ig Nobel Prizes, Science
More clues link immune system imbalance with chronic fatigue syndrome, Science
Why so much of the world is stuck in a ‘poverty trap’, Science
Gut microbes could help trigger multiple sclerosis, Science
This is what it would take to kill all life on Earth, Science
Beer yeast is more ‘sophisticated’ than wine yeast, NOVA Next
Measles erases immune ‘memory’ for other diseases, Nature
Clubby and ‘disturbing’ citation behavior by researchers in Italy has surged, Science
Opioid prescriptions: Striking differences in behaviour point to ways to combat abuse, Nature
Mexican science suffers under debilitating budget cuts, Nature
The biologist using insect eggs to overturn evolutionary doctrine, Nature
World’s most invasive mosquito nearly eradicated from two islands in China, Nature
Facing up to injustice in genome science, Nature
Brain signals translated into speech using artificial intelligence, Nature
New genetic ‘risk score’ could predict obesity odds, Science
Zapping elderly brains with electricity improves short-term memory—for almost an hour, Science
Protecting monarch butterflies' winter home could mean moving hundreds of trees, Nature (also featured in Scientific American)
Italian scientists protest funding for vaccine-safety investigation, Nature
A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony, Nature
Share of African American men going into medicine hits historic low, Nature
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer, Nature (also featured in the German and Italian editions of Scientific American)
Peer-reviewed homeopathy study sparks uproar in Italy, Nature
Plan to dismantle Puerto Rico’s statistics agency gets green light, Nature
Yellowstone's grizzlies under threat from controversial hunting proposal, Nature
Gender bias goes away when grant reviewers focus on the science, Nature
Sexual-minority students more likely to abandon science majors, Nature
Polar bears are wasting away in a changing climate, Nature
How brittlestars 'see' without eyes, Nature (also featured in Scientific American)
In thousands of brain scans, group seeks clues to diseases, Science
Do bacteriophage guests protect human health?, Science
Cosmic rays reveal unknown void in the Great Pyramid of Giza, Science
Cats that behave like liquids, tampons that play music, and other ‘advances’ honored with Ig Nobel Prizes, Science
More clues link immune system imbalance with chronic fatigue syndrome, Science
Why so much of the world is stuck in a ‘poverty trap’, Science
Gut microbes could help trigger multiple sclerosis, Science
This is what it would take to kill all life on Earth, Science
Beer yeast is more ‘sophisticated’ than wine yeast, NOVA Next
