Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...

President Trump targets the National Museum of African American History and Culture, aiming to erase 'divisive race-centered ideology' and 'ideological indoctrination.' ...

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President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

He played guard for Duke, but Claiborne wanted to play a role in change outside the lines, sparking a list of demands for ...

The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.

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Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field — according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists ... meeting of the American Physical ...

Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computer In front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft ...

It was Christmas of 1988 when Jainendra K. Jain found himself musing over an idea that would reshape the landscape of theoretical physics. Holed up in the quiet solitude of his study, the young Indian ...

After more than a decade in the United States, nuclear physicist Liu Chang, whose research has been crucial in the journey to achieve fusion energy, has left Princeton University for a position at ...

For physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern, based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, these antiquated automata have a resonance with some of today’s most cutting-edge ...