Hu Haitao, a former associate professor of microbiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), revealed in an interview with the South China Morning Post published on Monday that he is leaving the United States to return to his native China, where he will work for the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Israeli officials are reportedly investigating a possible Iranian connection to the murder of senior MIT nuclear scientist Prof. Nuno F. G. Loureiro, who was shot at his home on Monday evening by unknown assailants and died in the hospital a few hours later.
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who is running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying he has turned “his back on science.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who believes in transgenderism and mask mandates, launched a new “health alliance” with Oregon and Washington to counter the Trump administration’s changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Chinese scientists are complaining that the tariff war is slowing down research and making it difficult for laboratories to obtain vital equipment and supplies from the United States.
Scientists have reportedly genetically engineered dire wolves back into existence despite them being extinct for over 10,000 years.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson refused to say if Scientific American was wrong to claim that the differences between male and female athletes are due to biases and proclaimed “Let’s talk about science” while being
Laura Helmuth has resigned from her position as Editor-in-Chief from the Scientific American after she sparked significant backlash with an unhinged, incendiary rant against Trump voters.
Reuters published a report Thursday that showed China-based inventors have filed more than 1,000 patents in the United States since 2010 based on advanced technology research funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Bloomberg News on Tuesday published an exposé on the relationship between China’s Huawei telecom giant and Optica, a nonprofit scientific foundation based in Washington, DC.
Chinese author Liu Cixin’s monumental science fiction book The Three Body Problem, which has now been adapted into a Netflix series under the punchier title “3 Body Problem,” has a little something to annoy just about everyone – from climate change activists to skeptics, Chinese Communists to anti-communists, nationalists to open-borders fanatics. It is a big story with big ideas, and like most great works of fiction, not even the author can fully control how its events are interpreted.
NASA says a total solar eclipse will be visible on April 8, a view that is sure to awe Americans across the nation.
The federal government failed to notice an unlicensed bio lab in Reedley, California, which stored many communicable diseases and was created by a fugitive Chinese citizen with close ties to China’s government, according to a congressional report.
Female frogs sometimes play dead to avoid excessively agressive attempts at mating from males, a new study has revealed.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, scientists credited with discoveries leading to the development of mRNA vaccines, received the Nobel Prize.
A website to provide official declassified information on UFOs, including pictures and videos of sightings, for the public to access was launched Thursday by the Pentagon.
Researchers in the United States and Europe this week dashed hopes that a South Korean team had discovered a room-temperature superconductor.
The South Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics (KSSC) announced on Thursday it will establish a committee to investigate a claim by the Quantum Energy Research Center, a private research institute in Seoul, that it has achieved room-temperature superconductivity.
A possible solar storm may offer people in 17 states the chance to see the Northern Lights on Thursday.
Britain’s National Health Service will no longer routinely prescribe puberty blockers to children amid concerns over a lack of evidence on the impact of the drugs.
A Scientific American essay deemed “embarrassing” and “pseudo-scientific” is facing backlash after insisting human sex is “not binary.”
The Satanic Temple is requiring attendees of its SatanCon 2023 to provide proof of vaccination and to wear masks at the event, neither of which scientifically prevents transmission of the coronavirus, despite the Satanic Temple’s purported devotion to “scientific facts.”
A top Labour MP has said that 13-year-old children should be “taken seriously” if they claim that they want to change their gender.
Comedienne Chelsea Handler has claimed to have believed that the sun and the moon were the same until the age of 40.
Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that society was becoming anti-science because “untruths” are being normalized through social media.
Celebrities will be “panicking” over their support of a children’s transgender charity with ties to paedophilia, said J.K. Rowling.
Both biological and “trans” men are capable of becoming pregnant, according to Planned Parenthood’s Director for Primary and Trans Care Dr. Bhavik
The City of Toronto deleted a tweet and video on Tuesday containing an advertisement for COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young children between the ages of six months and 12 years.
Author David Limbaugh said in an interview aired on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily podcast that gutless conservatives’ acceptance of leftist premises facilitates the “deliberate destruction” of America.
Researchers at the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently claimed to have engineered the “world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported over the weekend.
Torrential rain hammered southern China’s Sichuan province over the weekend after several weeks of drought causing the region’s landscape to suffer flash flooding that forced the evacuation of nearly 50,000 people as of Sunday, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Photographs of giant panda keepers at China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve recently circulated online showing the staff wearing panda costumes smeared with feces and urine while they cared for the captive animals as part of an effort to minimize the natural scent of the human zookeepers, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
Researchers from the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences claimed in a recently published study to have developed a gene-editing method that is allegedly “more efficient and safer” than established techniques because it uses the CRISPR gene-editing tool to target RNA instead of DNA, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.
Sinopharm, a Chinese state-run pharmaceutical company, announced on Monday that it had submitted an application for clinical trials of an “Omicron-specific mRNA COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccine [candidate]” that it allegedly produced, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Neuroscientist Matthew Schrag of Vanderbilt University set the world of Alzheimer’s research on fire by launching an investigation that discredited one of the key studies of the disease – a 2006 study upon which a great deal of subsequent research was based. On Thursday, Science magazine blew the scandal into orbit by concluding that some of the visual evidence included in the 2006 study was deliberately doctored, an overture to what could be one of the worst cases of scientific fraud in history.
A study that investigated the placement of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations found that 96 percent of the facilities used to measure heat failed to meet the agency’s own “uncorrupted placement” standards.
The director of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday that he expects Moscow to end its participation in the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reacted to public health celebrity Anthony Fauci telling Politico that he would retire “by the end of President Joe Biden’s term” on Monday by demanding he “leave now” and condemning him for leading experiments that gruesomely harmed “millions of animals.”
Britain’s socialised healthcare system has reportedly removed the word ‘woman’ from an online advice page for those impacted by menopause.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly ordered the NHS to use the word women instead of woke doublespeak such as “people with ovaries”.
