Allie Sinclair discusses the challenges and opportunities of launching a lab in the current political climate and emphasizes the importance of building a network of interdisciplinary collaborators.

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

For nearly three decades, virologist Shan-Lu Liu has studied one of biology’s most fundamental questions: What happens when a virus attacks a cell? His research explores how viruses enter cells, how ...

On September 27, 1905, the Hwangseong Sinmun reported that U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who mediated the Russo-Japanese War, would receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This was the first time the ...

A new modeling study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may be more resilient to extreme long-term warming than previously estimated. Increased ...

Are Americans flunking science? A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that the US public is unable to pass even a basic ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack. The sensors enable aerial drones to track endangered animals and record changes in their ...

BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the ...

So Young Kim is director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and an associate professor of the Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy at KAIST in Daejon, South ...

The petri dishes were the bottoms of plastic water bottles, cut off and sterilized over a charcoal cookstove. Filled with agar and inoculated with bacteria from students’ fingers, the classroom ...