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Swedish court blocks new home for Nobel Foundation
Judges say the design doesn’t fit with Stockholm’s historic waterfront -
Bacteria in a pill may one day track your body’s chemistry
A new biosensor proves capable of detecting and relaying problems deep in the gut -
Podcast: forensic DNA predictions and Zika mosquito detection
On this week’s show: analyzing DNA from crime scenes to predict a suspect’s looks, and detecting Zika in mosquitoes on the cheap -
Many plants need bacterial roommates to survive. So why do some kick them out?
Survey of the evolution of nitrogen fixation uncovers unexpected costs -
Italy’s new prime minister defended discredited stem cell therapy
Guiseppe Conte won landmark case for a patient’s family -
Quaillike creatures were the only birds to survive the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact
Family trees suggest all modern avians arose from these early birds -
How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child
Machine learning algorithms may need programmed instincts to gain common sense -
Cooling failure threatens NOAA’s newest weather satellite
Agency scrambles to rescue GOES-17’s main instrument -
Could deep brain stimulation help zap diabetes?
New study suggests that implanted devices could improve glucose metabolism -
Scientists are declaring war against a leukemia-causing virus that has infected millions
Widespread testing can help curb HTLV-1, the retrovirus that HIV has overshadowed -
Elusive master organizer of human embryo growth seen for the first time
Lab-grown cells prompt beginnings of a second nervous system in chick embryos -
What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity’?
Conflicting research points to an immune reaction or indigestible carbs -
Here’s how China is challenging the U.S. and European brain initiatives
New research centers move 15-year project closer to reality -
To find small asteroids that could hit Earth, private foundation embraces small satellites
After abandoning plans for a large space telescope, B612 organization pins hopes on new technologies -
‘It’s a toxic place.’ How the online world of white nationalists distorts population genetics
A graduate student is analyzing how Stormfront and other racist websites misunderstand, and misuse, new scientific papers -
Defeated but unbowed: Two Pennsylvania scientists regroup after primary loss
Molly Sheehan and Eric Ding reflect on their bids for Congress -
Plants outweigh all other life on Earth
Trees and other greenery make up 80% of all biomass -
Surprise! House spending panel gives NSF far more money for telescope than it requested
Representative John Culberson (R–TX) says accelerated spending on big new facilities lowers cost and hastens scientific payoff -
Rival giant telescopes join forces to seek U.S. funding
Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope will offer “public access” in hopes of winning support -
The world’s largest amphibian is being bred to extinction
The Chinese giant salamander is actually five distinct species, all of which are virtually extinct in the wild -
This asteroid came from another solar system—and it’s here to stay
2015 BZ509 has a weird orbit, likely because it is an interstellar interloper -
Trump to nominate Chris Fall, neuroscientist and policy veteran, to lead DOE science
Fall also served in Obama White House -
Head of controversial agency becomes Russian minister for science and higher education
Mikhail Kotyukov headed the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, which seized control of the Russian Academy of Sciences’s property after 2013 reform -
Despite spread to port city, Congo Ebola outbreak isn’t an international emergency yet, WHO says
Advisory committee says there’s no “significant” threat yet of cross-border spread
