Science

When assessing government-funded research projects - presumably a cleaner company - I re-asked the questions that people in crises keep asking me. Is this study useful in any way to my son or sister? Or, more generously, given the pace of…

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is taking the unusual step of publicly recording the Trump administration's political interference in science, compiling a list of dozen of regulatory decisions that may have been skewed by political…

Behind the line • APOORVA MANDAVILLIBehind some of the Times' top journalists on the coronavirus is a reporter who speaks seven languages, has a master's degree in biochemistry, and, OK, has a thing for "Bridgerton."March 25, 2021Times…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must adjust their Covid recommendations faster as new scientific knowledge emerges, said Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday, adding that the agency needs to do the same with more…

Most striking, however, are the key lessons he has learned from his pandemic, which apply all too well to ours. First, respiratory diseases are highly contagious, and even the most common ones require attention. Second, the burden of…

Russell Impagliazzo, a professor of computer science at the University of California at San Diego, said the LLL algorithm also resulted in something called homomorphic encryption, which allows calculations to be performed on encrypted data…

In 1956, the Rosenbluths moved to San Diego, where Marshall Rosenbluth took up a position at General Atomics, a division of General Dynamics established to study the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Their marriage ended in divorce in…

Starter episode: "Urban Rodentology"The premise behind this decade-old show is simple: we all have science stories to tell, because simply to exist in the world means we are interacting with science all the time. The Story Collider is a…

"I think Sharon is a quintessential Enlightenment figure," Jon Meacham, former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, said in an email. "She wrote brilliantly on everything under the sun and beyond, from the origins of human life to climate change,…

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Friday that he would strengthen the role of science in his cabinet to "refresh and reinvigorate our national science and technology strategy."Mr. Biden will appoint Eric S. Lander, director of…