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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

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Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

In the icy waters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, beluga whales rely on an unexpected survival strategy: sharing mates over many ...

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Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H. funding was cut. Credit...Andri Tambunan for The New York Times Supported by ...

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