Dolphins learn the ‘names’ of their friends to form teams—a first in animal kingdom
Findings reveal the marine mammals have a sense of team membership
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Shoulder injuries to remain eligible for vaccine fund payouts under Biden administration
HHS reverses Trump administration’s effort to strip most common vaccine injury claim -
After coronavirus vaccine failures, France laments the state of its biomedical R&D
Researchers blame squeeze in basic research funding and scarce venture capital for biotech startups -
Here’s how scientists are designing vaccines that can ditch the fridge
New formulations to avoid cold storage could help vaccines beat the heat -
Planned service road near Mount St. Helens threatens prized research area
“There would be no point in studying there anymore,” one ecologist says -
Canada’s new science budget gets lukewarm reception from researchers
Advocates wanted greater emphasis on basic research -
Russia mulls withdrawing from the International Space Station after 2024
Senior officials are pessimistic about the station’s long-term future -
Nuclear fallout is showing up in U.S. honey, decades after bomb tests
Levels of radioactive cesium aren’t concerning, but study shows how they persist in food products -
Who pulled the trigger? Gun muzzle exhaust may complicate analysis of crime scenes
“Back spatter” moves in unexpected directions, researchers find -
An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society
Controversy embroils virtual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology -
Just 19% of Earth’s land is still ‘wild,’ analysis suggests
Study overturns the idea that humans are invariably bad for biodiversity -
Team recovers ancient genomes from dirt, revealing new history of North America’s bears
“Breakthrough” sampling method reveals a far-flung family tree -
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter lifts off of Mars
Four flights remain for rotorcraft after demonstrating first powered flight on another planet -
Fifteen journals to outsource peer-review decisions
Free reviews from nonprofit body could add to questions facing scientific publishers -
Uproar over sale of iconic Carnegie institution headquarters to Qatar exposes deeper tensions
Some scientists decry planned reorganization of famous research institution -
Biden administration scraps human fetal tissue research restrictions
Internal NIH research may resume, and funding applications will no longer face Trump-era ethical review -
New York state ends stem cell research funding
Elimination of the grants, which had slowed, will stall studies of various diseases -
First round of hearings by Congress back a more muscular NSF
Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate -
Alaska’s forest fires are shifting the region’s carbon balance—sometimes for the better
Aspen and birch that rise from the ashes sequester more carbon than old-growth spruce -
Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived
On this week’s show: What it means that muons are more magnetic than predicted, and a way to estimate the population of dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago -
DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared
First nuclear DNA from sediment shows turnover, migration among ancient cave dwellers in Spain -
This ancient shark fossil is exquisite. But some researchers wonder if they’ll be able to study it
Science paper stirs controversy -
Vaccines that can protect against many coronaviruses could prevent another pandemic
Approaches include tailored nanoparticles, chimeric proteins, virus cocktails -
Lab-grown embryos mix human and monkey cells for the first time
Insights from these chimeras could boost efforts to grow replacement human organs in livestock -
California to hunt greenhouse gas leaks and superemitters with monitoring satellites
Carbon Mapper’s advanced sensors will track fugitive methane and measure forest health
