Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw firsthand the threat posed by mosquitoes: Nearly a third of adults on the picturesque island once had swollen limbs from elephantiasis caused by their bites.
Britain will ban children aged under 16 from using a range of social media apps, including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia's Sulawesi island Tuesday, causing scattered damage and rattling residents of a city devastated by a quake and tsunami eight years ago.
The public health expert and former federal health official talks about the politicization of science
The university leader on how dealing with mistrust in science will help the U.S. keep its competitive edge
The HBCU president on the role of academic institutions in American innovation
The university president and biomedical scientist talks about the hope and doubt in U.S. science today
The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention talks about threats to U.S. science and ways they can be stopped
The Internet pioneer talks about tenure and publications and shares what needs to change for U.S. science to forge ahead
The M.I.T. professor and expert on innovation on why science is worth celebrating
The Nobel laureate on how resilience can help young scientists succeed and why governmental support of science should be bipartisan
The Nobel laureate shares how artificial intelligence will change the way science is done
The federal health official on the need to keep scientists from leaving the U.S.
The higher education innovator shares thoughts on communicating science and connecting research to what the public values
The well-known seismologist on the need for the U.S. to recalibrate its social commitment to science
The university president shares thoughts on private funding and the future of science and innovation
The mathematician and former NFL player on the benefits of having a broad background for young people who are interested in science
The prolific mathematician discusses the role culture plays in understanding and appreciating science
The Nobel laureate on why the U.S. needs to treat scientific research as an essential part of the nation’s infrastructure
The Google senior vice president talks about the need to reset the relationship between the government and academic and industrial science
The well-regarded meteorologist shares advice for young scientists to become as good at communication as they are at discovery
The University of California, Berkeley, materials scientist on the hope the next generation of scientists represents
The machine-learning guru discusses how politics is undermining U.S. science
The governor of California, where science and technology are large parts of the economy, on finding the balance in innovation between taking risks and being reckless
The CRISPR expert on why immigration should be considered an economic and national security asset for science
The Stanford University artificial intelligence leader on why basic science needs more support
The university president on narrowing the time between discovery and societal impact
The computational neuroscientist on how scientists themselves need to better advocate for government support
The renowned physicist on the lack of public support for political interference in science
The Pfizer executive talks about rekindling the public’s excitement over science
The energy entrepreneur talks about the state of science innovation in the U.S.
The congressional representative and physicist talks about the search for scientific truth and the role of immigrants in the U.S. scientific enterprise
The noted robotics expert discusses the need for better communication to the public on the value of basic science
The biotech executive talks about how we are currently at an inflection point in biomedical science and how frustration can be a good thing
The noted virologist talks about how to rebuild the U.S. scientific enterprise
The EU must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 relative to 1990—of which 5 percentage points can be achieved through climate action elsewhere, according to the 2025 law. A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now proposes a novel
