His name was Ravindra Kaushik, India’s most daring and celebrated spy, known in intelligence circles as “The Black Tiger.” Born in 1952 in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, Kaushik was an ordinary ...

Shohamy is director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University and co-director of Columbia’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science. I recently sat with a young scientist ...

It also revealed a deeper division between science and the humanities — quiet now but with a Harvard history. Viewpoint diversity means wanting more conservatives, not a further sprinkling of ...

A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a scientist holding tiny froglets all feature in the top images from this year’s ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The hits to science, and scientists, keep coming under the Trump administration.

On July 3, 1945, 10 German scientists who had worked on Germany’s nuclear program were interned by the Allies at a country mansion called Farm Hall, in Godmanchester, England, about 20 miles ...

The European Commission has launched a new initiative to attract researchers and scientists to the European Union—especially those from the United States. The Choose Europe for Science program ...

There was something I loved and something I hated in the first season of The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic TV show based on the hit video game of the same name, in which humanity fights against ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The 500-million-year-old fossil Shishania aculeata, once thought to be an early mollusk, has been reclassified as a chancelloriid, a sponge-like Cambrian animal ...

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle ...

She listens. Trim plays Bach or Chopin to calm her until the jail line clicks off at the 15-minute mark and she – a shy, 30-year-old Harvard scientist with no history of immigration violations ...

Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for OBEs (a mismatch of sensory information or the disruptions of coordination across certain brain areas), other experts wonder if ...