Chen Ning Yang, professor of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, described the events leading to his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the non-conservation of parity at the first ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and ...

Traditionally, the awards ceremony and related Ig Nobel events have taken place in Boston at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University. However, four of last ...

Three Harvard College students and one alumna were awarded the 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholarship and will pursue fully funded postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge next year, the Gates ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that curiosity, not silence, signifies intelligence. He emphasizes that asking questions is crucial for learning and intellectual growth, while avoiding them ...

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Isaac Newton formulated his laws of motion. Robert Boyle established chemistry as an experimental science. Gottfried Leibniz ...

Investment by Beijing has transformed the country’s institutions despite lingering questions about research quality and intellectual freedom ...

Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmental downsides.

Michael Pollan, the American journalist whose edict “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” became an international fridge magnet, is back with a warning about the limits of artificial intelligence – ...