The struggle to avoid a partial U.S. government shutdown at midnight Sept. 30 is getting a lot of attention, as the stakes increase every day of the political standoff. Meanwhile, Sept. 30 also could ...

On September 20, Nobel laureates, academicians, young scientists, and emerging R&D professionals from around the world gathered on the banks of the Yangtze River in Nanjing to explore ways to ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' famed "Doomsday Clock" is the closest it has ever been to midnight. “Without clear and sustained efforts from world leaders to prevent nuclear war, there can be ...

To economic prosperity and human progress, that is. Eleven of the world's leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, ...

Nearly 300 scientists, including current and former NASA employees and a score of Nobel prize winners, signed a letter published Monday decrying proposed budget cuts directed by President Donald Trump ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a high-level signing ceremony on Tuesday, bringing together government officials past and present, foreign partners, and members of the diplomatic corps, for the ...

Klaus von Klitzing on stage at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, in Lindau, Germany. He discussed how the field of metrology and the definition of SI units have been changed using quantum ...

Nineteen Nobel Prize winners have united in an unprecedented diplomatic appeal to President Trump, leveraging their global moral authority to pressure for the release of 1,300 political prisoners ...