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How and when will we know that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective?
Several vaccines are in Phase 3 trials. So at what point will we be certain that one or more can provide protection against the coronavirus?
Fewer international students coming to US for grad school in science and engineering
When Soviet science faltered, the US stepped forward. Now it's France's turn.
A physicist who always dreamed of working in the US says it’s no longer the ‘global center of science’
What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?
How Trump's rhetoric could cost colleges billions in lost tuition revenue
Walk up and down Commonwealth Avenue on the Boston University campus, and it's easy to see and hear the presence of international students. The largest percentage of foreign students — here and nationwide — come from China. So when President Donald Trump sounds off, college administrators get anxious.
Scientists skip international meeting due to fear of US travel
A handful of scientists skipped a large annual meeting in Boston this weekend, where the impact of Trump administration policies on science took center stage.
One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is 'totally speechless' over the push to limit immigration
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart won a Nobel Prize in chemistry this year. Like the five others who won in the US, he is an immigrant.
Humans aren't the only species where righties are more common than lefties
Vertebrates from humans to fish display a preference to be right- or left-dominant, even when they don't have hands.
Does human specimen research always need consent?
Here’s why scientists are against newly proposed rules on consent needed for using human specimens for research.
How much of your personal data do you give up when you use your smartphone?
Is the information in our smartphones more secure now that the NSA has changed its metadata collection guidelines?
Is DNA the future of digital data storage?
These engineers have figured out how to store digital information on DNA. And that’s big news.
It's an orchid. It's a mantis. It's incredible — and deadly.
The orchid mantis takes on the color of a “generic or an average type of flower” to attract bees and other pollinating insects as prey.
The woman behind a new LSD study has a history of experimenting on herself
Amanda Feilding co-directed new research on LSD that could prove beneficial in curing mental illness and PTSD. For Feilding, it's yet another step in a fascinating journey of personal experimentation.
What a young scientist found when he started researching a famous 'boiling river' in Peru
Andrés Ruzo knew there was a river in Peru that bubbled and boiled. But it took him a long time to find it.