This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Nevertheless, the politics of scarcity has persisted. Much of what makes Trumpism distinct from previous Republican presidents’ ideologies—above all, its insistence that immigration is per se ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

While there are high-level critics of diversity today, research finds that diversity is good for society—and it has a long ...

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to tip his hat without ever putting down his newspaper. By her death in 1973, ...

This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported ...

Sally Ride devoted nearly 20 years to teaching physics at UC San Diego, forming a deep and lasting bond with the university's mission and spirit. It was only natural, then, that three years after her ...

A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

Google has launched Stitch, an AI-powered design tool that turns simple text prompts into interactive app designs and ...

Young scientists showcased their knowledge and engaged in friendly rivalry at the Chester County Science Research Competition.

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters ...