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February 25, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmNobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein tiesRichard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s…

A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his…

It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as the economy changes.…

When the forecasts for this week started to roll in, my mind immediately drifted back to Australia’s black summer.I had taken my daughters down to the…

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.” —Plato In the first week of my postdoctoral fellowship, David B. Sacks,…

Scientist Katy Soapi’s earliest memories are of the sea. She grew up on Rendova, a lush island in western Solomon Islands, and life centred around the…

A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday, but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months…

When the World Health Organization announced – incorrectly, as became apparent later – in March 2020 that the Covid-19 virus was not airborne, Prof Lidia Morawska…

Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had…

A chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, was among the trio of scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday. Omar Yaghi, the Berkeley…