The Beijing-controlled megacity is courting international researchers with astronomical salaries and cutting-edge equipment.

But some colleagues and admirers in Israel suggest another reason for the muted reaction is that Mr Mokyr is based in America ...

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When your body’s immune cells attack you instead of protecting you, today’s treatments tamp down the friendly fire but they ...

In a life defined by extremes, Nobel Prize-winning biologist James Watson, who directed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1994, died Nov. 6th at the age of 97.

Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries that can help us more effectively treat conditions such as ...

Remembering James Watson's legacy while exploring groundbreaking medical advancements, from organ transplants to AI in ...

Taiwan hopes to have at least three more Nobel Prize laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine within the next 30 years, ...

Dr. Ada E. Yonath, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mellon College of Science in 1969, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her studies of the ribosome. “Ada Yonath at the Weizmann ...

Two Japanese scientists among this year's Nobel laureates shared the view on Monday that humans are still necessary despite the rapid evolution of ...