On Feb. 13, the State Department announced a funding freeze on international education and exchange programs, including the ...

New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...

Berkeley teen Maya Merhige is swimming her way into the history books, completing an impressive array of open water swims ...

Harvard Prof. Maya Sen proposes that universities “commit to addressing administrative bloat and shoring up research integrity” to tame indirect costs (“A Compromise on University Funding ...

Bruising cuts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have sparked fears about the future of the agency — by far the world’s biggest ...

"I grew up around waste," says Maya Tamang, a community mobiliser at Biocomp Nepal, a social enterprise working on waste management in Nepal. She has had an inspiring journey shaped by her ...

At least 24 termination letters have been sent out, according to one official. Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Duke University got $580 million in grants and contracts last year from the National Institutes of Health ...

I read Harvard Prof. Maya Sen’s Feb. 25 op-ed “A Compromise on University Funding” with great interest. Ms. Sen writes that reducing the rate the U.S. government—i.e., its taxpayers ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...

Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...

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