On July 3, 1945, 10 German scientists who had worked on Germany’s nuclear program were interned by the Allies at a country mansion called Farm Hall, in Godmanchester, England, about 20 miles northwest ...

Scientists have discovered a new planet that may be able to support human life, according to a new study. The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday, named ...

When Rep. Bill Foster first decided to run for Congress in 2007, he did what many aspiring politicians do: He asked his friends for money. For the Illinois Democrat, a former physicist at the Fermi ...

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For many, the 2016 presidential election represented an existential threat to science and jolted large segments of the research workforce into street protest mode. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged that scientists are not part of his workforce reduction efforts. But many scientists recruited for their expertise at the nation’s ...

In 2019, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did something unusual in modern medicine—they found a new antibiotic, halicin. In May this year another team found a second ...