
Farnam Jahanian
The university president on narrowing the time between discovery and societal impact

Farnam Jahanian
The university president on narrowing the time between discovery and societal impact

Robert Metcalfe
The Internet pioneer talks about tenure and publications and shares what needs to change for U.S. science to forge ahead

Angie Rasmussen
The noted virologist talks about how to rebuild the U.S. scientific enterprise

Chris Boshoff
The Pfizer executive talks about rekindling the public’s excitement over science

Gerbrand Ceder
The University of California, Berkeley, materials scientist on the hope the next generation of scientists represents

Robert Langer
The M.I.T. professor and expert on innovation on why science is worth celebrating

Stephen Streiffer
The materials scientist describes how science is a contact sport

Glaciers are secretly teeming with life
What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?

Russia seeks mathematician’s extradition
Mikhail Verbitsky was detained at an Armenian airport last Thursday on charges of inciting terrorism

NASA spots the possible remains of a massive supernova in the middle of the Milky Way
If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way

Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
Fossilized poo harbors remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including some of the oldest DNA ever reconstructed

Inside the race to develop a new Ebola vaccine
As Ebola rages, Moderna and others are racing to develop an mRNA vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo virus driving the current outbreak