It is not only the freedom to choose research areas that stands to be lost. It is also the potential loss of independent ...

What starts as digital applause can quickly devolve into a chorus of chaos. In the Wild West of online connections, praise, poison, and pseudoscience often sit side by side—especially when the topic ...

In 2015, a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 and injuring thousands. The earthquake resulted in losses exceeding ...

In the heart of 9th century Morocco, a woman quietly rewrote the future of global education. She was Fatima al-Fihri and she ...

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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist crucial to cancer diagnostic advancements, has been detained for two months, raising concerns about stalled research. Accused of failing to declare frog embryo ...

Scientists in California claim to have discovered a new jaw-dropping color no human has ever seen before. The catch? You have to zap your eyes with laser pulses to see it. Five scientists at the ...

The future of a potentially groundbreaking cancer detection tool hangs in the balance, as the only scientist able to unlock its full potential sits inside a Louisiana immigration detention center ...

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The US faces a potential brain drain of scientists avoiding Trump’s crackdown on immigration and science. A poll of 1,600 scientists by the journal Nature found that 75 percent were thinking of ...

But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific ...