Susan Lois Hamilton, chair of the Department of Integrated Physiology, received her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University ...

Re “America Is Losing Its Pull for Best Minds in Science” (front page, June 4): There is another dimension by which the best minds are leaving science, particularly basic research. For years, about ...

What’s the purpose of your study? It’s the question many basic-science researchers dread. And it’s the question that Carly Anne York received about 10 years ago from a fellow volunteer at the Virginia ...

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Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed ...