Science news this week April 5, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Ms. Boscolo, who has spent years working at the intersection of climate science and energy policy, is quick to point out the vulnerability of renewable energy infrastructure. Dams, solar farms, and ...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are vital to national economies. However, despite ongoing efforts, women and girls still encounter barriers which limit their ...

In a featured article published in Frontiers in Science, Prof Bob Hancock (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) with researchers from leading Canadian institutions describe how a bioinformatic ...

The steady torrent of spaghetti science helps to demonstrate that deep questions lurk in our ordinary routines, and that there are plenty of hungry physicists who can't stop asking them.

Even billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink, with its pioneering brain computer interfaces (BCIs) which bypass damaged nerves by linking them directly to external devices like robotic limbs, works on ...

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

Plus, his contributions to the popularization of science cement his legacy for generations to come. Hawking began his research career in the 1960s, well before his diagnosis with ALS (amyotrophic ...

One outcome might be a rise in the influence of non-US funding agencies. The National Natural Science Foundation of China is expanding its International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange ...

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