Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Carnegie Mellon University announced Wednesday it is laying off 75 software engineering staff members due to changes in federal priorities. The 75 positions make up about 10% of the Software ...

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Earth was grazed by a tiny asteroid last week, which passed about as close as the International Space Station (ISS). That makes it the second-closest known flyby on record. The asteroid, designated ...

Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Food Synthetic Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China ...

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As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore what China ...

How close are we to rebuilding the legendary Tower of Babel? China is rolling out a suite of AI tools that may soon make cross-language communication seamless. In the Bible’s Book of Genesis, humanity ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

The better you can understand and manage your emotions, and the emotions of people around you, the greater your chances of success. So how emotionally intelligent are you? You could take an emotional ...