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Foreign nationals propel U.S. science. Visa limits under Trump could change that

10:36am November 21, 2024

The incoming Trump administration is likely to crack down on the H-1B visas used by tech companies and research institutions to hire top talent from other countries.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

11:55am August 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Chinese American physicist, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco.

Theoretical physicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, shown in a photo taken in December at the University of Oxford in England, turned to YouTube "to keep my sanity" during the dark days of the pandemic.

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She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity

8:01am September 23, 2023

by Scott Neuman

This theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.

Scientists have engineered an albino squid that provides a window into the inner workings of the brain.

Health & Safety

How scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view

12:13pm August 28, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

A see-through squid is giving scientists an unprecedented view of the brain and other organs in a living animal.

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This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, combined the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope's two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infra

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Scientists have picked up a radio signal 'heartbeat' billions of light-years away

5:06am July 14, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Scientists have not been able to pinpoint the exact location of the radio waves yet.

An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope after it has unfolded in space.

Science

NASA's Got A New, Big Telescope. It Could Find Hints Of Life On Far-Flung Planets

6:13pm September 23, 2021

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

The James Webb Space Telescope will let scientists study small, rocky planets around distant stars in more detail than ever before. After decades of work, it could head into orbit later this year.

Tia Tate is a computational biologist currently working in a postdoctoral position at a federal agency in North Carolina.

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Why Having Diverse Government Scientists Is Key To Dealing With Climate Change

4:38pm April 30, 2021

by Rebecca Hersher

Climate and health policies rely on scientific expertise. But the federal science workforce has been shaped by decades of political interference, underfunding and race and gender bias.

Indiana University's board of trustees voted earlier this month to strip David Starr Jordan's name from a building. Jordan was the university's seventh president and a leader of the eugenics movement.

National

Universities Rethink Building Names In The Wake Of Racial Justice Protests

12:40pm October 20, 2020

by Lauren Bavis

Many U.S. colleges have lecture halls named after respected scientists who also promoted racial theories or practices that are now rejected. And increasingly, their names are being removed.

Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov helped search for the MOSAiC ice floe. It made its way through the ice of the central Arctic Ocean.

Searching For Solid Ice As Scientists 'Freeze In' To Study A Warming Arctic

12:44pm November 05, 2019

by Ravenna Koenig

A ship of researchers is crossing the Arctic for a year attached to an ice floe. But finding the right chunk of sea ice was a challenge, in part because warmer temperatures are making it thinner.

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At Chicago's McCormick Place, neuroscientists from around the world presented their work to colleagues. But some researchers were denied entry because of the Trump administration's travel ban.

U.S. Travel Ban Disrupts The World's Largest Brain Science Meeting

8:27pm October 24, 2019

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists from nations including Iran, Mexico, and India were refused visas to attend this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Some researchers got stand-ins to present their work.

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