Jim Daley

Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation

When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it

The U.S. has been slow to embrace the technology, even though Japan and China are zooming ahead

Scientists keep getting conflicting calculations of the expansion rate of the universe, but a new technique could help.

Researchers surveyed the world’s 124 coffee species and found more than half are threatened.

Fermilab’s Inclusivity Journal Club seeks answers to difficult social questions in science.

Engineering a device that can precisely take the temperature of 770 tons of liquid argon is no easy task.

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.

Michelle Duster, Eve Ewing, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Natalie Moore discussed the journalist and civil rights activist’s life and legacy.

A month-long showcase of installations and interactive events in and around Woodlawn provokes questions of our place in nature and its place in our communities.

Fermilab scientists are harnessing quantum technology in the search for dark matter.

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

From the difficulty of tracking rare populations to the danger of poachers exploiting distribution data, the complications of studying endangered species require creative solutions from researchers.

The finding confirms that a cluster of cells that directs the fate of other cells in the developing embryo is evolutionarily conserved across the animal kingdom.

A pilot program announced last month will consider combining announced and surprise inspections.

A study finds two species of guenon monkeys in Tanzania have been mating and producing fertile offspring for generations.

Researchers at the Rare Genomics Institute look at how families finance the cost of diagnostic exome sequencing.

Many cities around the globe, including Washington, DC, saw shrunken crowd sizes, and numerous events turned into rallies rather than processions.

Social insects kill infected individuals for the benefit of the colony—and now a study has shown how they know who’s sick.

With the largest private gift to a public college, the new facility aims to infuse the local economy with fresh opportunities, but returns on the investment are anything but guaranteed.