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European Research Council president resigns just 3 months into job
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United States wants to end most payouts for leading vaccination-related injury
Critics argue controversial move flouts science and law -
Unrest over citizenship policies could imperil India’s census
Social scientists warn of undercount, attacks on census takers -
Doomsday Clock is reset to 100 seconds until midnight, closest ever
Move prompted by new threats including hypersonic weapons and fake news -
NIH extends reporting mandate to more clinical trials, but obscures their policing
Agency’s approach to enforcement called “regulatory theater” -
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have fizzled -
The science stories likely to make headlines in 2020
Science’s news editors and writers predict this year’s biggest developments -
Can Italy’s new science funding agency overcome a thin budget and worries over political meddling?
€300 million would be used for innovative projects -
European data law is impeding studies on diabetes and Alzheimer’s, researchers warn
Researchers share frustrations with GDPR privacy regulations at seminar in Brussels -
Dismissed EPA science advisers gather in ‘unprecedented’ challenge to Trump administration
Ousted air quality experts stage their own review of agency’s particulate science -
NIH marquee awards for ‘high risk, high reward’ projects skew male—again
Agency struggles to attract female applicants for premier grants; one award appears to favor male applicants -
Rick Perry’s most surprising legacy as energy secretary could be bigger science budget
Artificial intelligence became a bigger DOE priority under Perry -
A global push to get from disease genes to medicines
With 70,000 DNA markers in hand, new organization aims to draft a road map for figuring out what they do -
Can you spot the duplicates? Critics say these photos of lionfish point to fraud
Collage was meant to dispel doubts about study of lionfish by disgraced Swedish researcher -
Senate bill would give NIH $3 billion in 2020, or 7.7% boost
Increase is $1 billion more than the House of Representatives has proposed -
‘The system is swamped.’ Canada can’t keep up with requests to study cannabis
Nearly 1 year after cannabis legalization, Canadian scientists bemoan long waits for research licenses