Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.

Funding for science is more than just the amount of money. To a large extent, the organizations that fund research set the agenda, and different funders have different priorities. It can also be hard ...

Recent coterminal graduate Nazlı Dakad '24 M.S '25 highlights the importance of pursuing a career that makes a difference.

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As Democrat Joe Biden prepares for his inauguration as the next U.S. president on Jan. 20, Reuters asked celebrities what would be the first thing they would do if they were elected a world leader.

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and ...

Jane Goodall, the intellectual, soft-spoken conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking, immersive chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates’ distinct personalities and use of ...

The recreated skull's features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called "Dragon Man" and the Denisovans — an enigmatic and recently discovered population of ...

The scramble for rare earth elements—the metals quietly powering everything from electric vehicles to fighter jets—is redrawing geopolitical alliances and igniting a new era of strategic resource ...

The Boardman SLR 9.8 tops the bargain brand's new range of road bikes. Can it compete with the best in the business for half ...