President-elect Donald Trump is expected to uphold the Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act, a landmark policy designed to boost U.S. semiconductor production, despite criticism voiced during ...

In the aftermath of Election Day, one political science expert is looking back on the 2024 election and the events that ...

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After taking power in 2012, Xi Jinping launched a determined campaign to shift the vital center of science and technology (S&T) from the United States to China by pioneering emerging technologies such ...

Watch an engaging conversation between ACS Central Science Editor-in-Chief Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi and C&EN Editor-in-Chief Nick Ishmael-Perkins, which took place at ACS Spring 2024, in New Orleans.

A council leader has said he opposes a suggestion loud fireworks should be banned on land owned by the authority. A member of St Albans City and District Council mooted a ban on fireworks with a ...

In perhaps the most widely repeated story in all of science, Newton is said to have chanced upon the theory of gravity while contemplating under the shade of an apple tree. According to the legend ...

The owner of Premier Inn has failed in its attempt to get nine houses built next to one of its hotels. Whitbread, which owns the hotel chain, wanted to build four semi-detached, three-bedroom ...

NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

It turns out there was a very common science fiction pitfall that he was determined to avoid. "This is another thing science fiction always gets wrong," Franck said. "So the story where aliens fly ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...