The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

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WASHINGTON — As part of next steps for the Janus Program, the Department of the Army has selected nine installations for consideration in which to site microreactor power plants, and the Defense ...

The shutdown brought the scale of the federal food aid program into focus and raised questions about how such a rich country could have so many people on nutrition assistance. By David W. Chen The ...

The email that said the career resource program for women would no longer be part of Google was terse and followed months of eroding support. But the deletion of years of Women Techmakers’ work came ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master’s degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China’s ascendant ...

Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering Overview Purdue University’s online Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering is designed to produce students with firm grounding in space systems ...

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) ...

This week, 62,959 rising high school seniors in North Carolina will get letters in the mail saying they've been accepted to dozens of in-state colleges and universities. A group of colleges and ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is ...

JUNEAU — Alaska lawmakers overrode two of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes in a joint session Saturday, marking what Senate President Gary Stevens called an “unprecedented” move by the Legislature.