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The stone fragments had been discovered inside ‘Handprint Cave’ in Belize alongside other artefacts suggestive of ritual use.

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In turbulent economic times, the prime minister’s Liberal party has promised funding to attract research talent to Canada.

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President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts ...

Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

With the world set to blow past its temperature targets, efforts are growing to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.