The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.
ESCAPADE, que se lanzó al espacio el jueves en un cohete de Blue Origin, rompe el molde de cómo suelen desarrollarse las misiones de ciencia planetaria.
An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.
Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing law during his lifetime.
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.
As neural implant technology and A.I. advance at breakneck speeds, do we need a new set of rights to protect our most intimate data — our minds?
As many elite colleges struggle to adapt to the technology, the nation’s most prestigious universities said dozens of students used artificial intelligence tools to cheat.
The coaching fixture John Beam was gravely wounded in a shooting at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., a commuter school where he is athletic director, according to a city councilman.
Prime Minister Mark Carney fast-tracked mines and other natural resource projects to the dismay of some Indigenous groups and many environmentalists.
The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval.
The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy.
The accusations follow recent federal charges filed against figures from Mafia families accused of running illegal poker games that involved former N.B.A. players.
Authorities said a tanker truck parked outside a hotel in Weatherford, Okla., was leaking ammonia on Wednesday night, prompting evacuations.
Austin Becker developed an early warning system to protect critical infrastructure from storms. His project’s funding was eliminated in April.
She studied the impact of noise on health and classroom learning and helped impose stricter regulations in New York City.
Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, told the university’s board that the choice of a new president, to replace one pushed out by Republicans over the summer, should be delayed until she is in office.
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.
Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty of ways to stretch your mind.
The explosive potential of those years makes every emotion more intense — and a perfect combo for rich storytelling.
Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more.
The announcement came a day after protesters confronted attendees of a campus event hosted by Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk.
Demonstrators protested on Monday outside a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley. University officials said a “single violent incident” took place. The Justice Department said it would investigate what had happened, citing security concerns.
A neuroscientist, he employed a battery of high-tech tools in devising a fast-acting therapy that targets the area of the brain where depression originates.
Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.
Readers respond to an article about how the teaching of U.S. history is changing. Also: Democratic pragmatism; emergency care at risk.
Dr. Masahide Kanayama has devoted his life in Manhattan to medicine and God. He could face five years of hard labor in Japan.
The disease was once considered eliminated in Canada, but not any more — there have been more than 5,000 cases in the last 12 months as vaccination rates have fallen.
Supporters of Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor-elect, say they expect her to reverse efforts to impose conservative priorities on the state’s prestigious public university system.
The sharp-tongued architect and professor built Manhattan’s most luxurious towers, but his new book shuttles from Billionaire’s Row to the Bronx. (Plus, what he thinks of Rem and Zaha.)
Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.
A growing coalition of conservatives are speaking out against hormonal birth control, while promoting a more “natural” alternative.
Boycotts of Israeli universities, largely imposed in Europe, have multiplied since the start of the war and reflect Israel’s international isolation over its conduct in Gaza.
Two other crew members were critically injured when the helicopter crashed about 30 miles from Nashville. No patients were on board.
His decoding the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He wrote a celebrated memoir and later ignited an uproar with racist views.
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
In May 1970, National Guard troops clashed with students at Kent State University in Ohio. Four students were killed, and nine were injured.
A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine after the 1970 shooting.
There has been a shift in campus culture. We want to hear from faculty members across the United States.
A federal judge said that faculty members were being affected in their teaching and research by the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.
He won billions of dollars for plaintiffs in major suits against corporations but was disbarred for siphoning money from clients.
Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom.
El juez federal criticó el miércoles a la fiscala elegida personalmente por el presidente Trump, Lindsey Halligan, por adoptar un enfoque del caso basado en “imputar primero, investigar después”.
“This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in their homes,” said Erin Hecht, a canine researcher at Harvard. “Now there’s just no money.”
In Queens, a college of aeronautics is trying to help meet the need for controllers. I put on a headset and gave the training a try.
The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.
Technology has left them with little autonomy or security in their jobs.
Anthony Lennon, a convicted sex offender from Oklahoma, was arrested in Canton, N.Y., where he was studying under an alias, the authorities said.
The predawn blast at a Harvard lab caused minor damage and led to the arrest of Logan David Patterson, 18, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 20.
The Tennessee university has promised to make repairs to the General Theological Seminary buildings as it establishes a satellite campus in Chelsea.
Niche is the latest company to help families predict what they might pay. If only colleges would do more.
In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists are still searching for their remains.
Cody Campbell, an oilman, has spent millions paying students to play football at Texas Tech. Now he worries that people like him are ruining college sports.
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.
There was no structural damage to the building, they said, as investigators pursued two suspects.
Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.
Two people were seen running from the building afterward, the school said. No injuries were reported, the school police said.
A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.
Sure, Tom Turkey looms large this month, but other highlights include a magic show with Muppets, Patti Smith and “Horses,” and wrestling drag queens.
In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.
New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller shortfall. But they hope to have a higher success rate than the Federal Aviation Agency’s official academy.
Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.
Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: How do genes give rise to different bodies? But without funding, “there’s not really a future here.”
One poll of likely voters, from Emerson College, showed Zohran Mamdani widening his lead over former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to 25 percentage points.
Tons of toxic German munitions, dumped in the Baltic and North Seas after World War II, have become an unlikely refuge for marine life, a new study has found.
Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work.
Derek Lopez, 27, defended his posts as performance art and free speech, according to an affidavit. The F.B.I. said he continued to use threatening language despite a warning from agents.
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.
Three other rhesus monkeys were still on the loose as of Wednesday after the truck carrying them rolled over on a highway in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said.
The governor’s announcement follows a Trump administration plan to charge institutions $100,000 to bring in workers from other countries using the visas.
An urban planner who specialized in disaster recovery, he was brought in to revive the city after the 2005 storm. The task proved larger than one man could handle.
An H.B.C.U.’s remarkable Hale Woodruff murals commemorating Black history have been bought by an art museum and two foundations. But the college says it is not completely letting go.
As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it.
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
In a crowded field of would-be successors, Brilyn Hollyhand hopes to capture the minds of young conservatives across America.
The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
For some women, it feels like the only way to get medical care is to know someone who knows someone who can Whatsapp your book club group chat.
The news “underscores the profound ecological toll that Hurricane Melissa will have on Jamaica’s biodiversity,” said one expert on the island.
The Harvard Salient, a conservative outlet, used a phrase that echoed a speech given by Hitler. Its board paused its operations over material it called “reprehensible, abusive and demeaning.”
The school, once a progressive college, was remade by Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration. Now, it is the first school to agree to the Trump administration’s list of demands.
The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”
History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive.
A contentious vote over the return of fluoride to Calgary’s water was supposed to settle a decades-long debate. But the battle on both sides remains as polarized as ever.
The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.
In an unusual move, the university imposed a one-year ban on Colorado Academy for early-decision applications, which carry a commitment to attend.
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.
The Alpha Sigma Phi national organization permanently shut down its Rutgers chapter after concluding that hazing had occurred when a student was critically hurt this month.
Point shaving. Gambling rings. Illegal poker games. Prosecutors in New York have seen it all.
In weaponizing its dominance over the crucial minerals, Beijing is using tactics that it once denounced, potentially alienating nations it wants to court.
The only active N.B.A. player named in two indictments was Mr. Rozier, a versatile veteran who first drew the attention of gambling investigators in 2023.
Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached.
Why has the genius of these Black innovators been consigned to academic conferences?
The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences.
Este proyecto de prueba se diseñó para combinar granjas de alimentos y solares, una práctica denominada “agrivoltaica”, como modelo para otras comunidades que buscan seguridad energética y alimentaria.
While others made sleek metallic sculptures, she favored humble materials like lumber and glue. The Times called her “one of our most gifted and inventive sculptors.”
The Justice Department had been scrutinizing one of the nation’s premier public universities over accusations of civil rights violations.
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
Small colleges secure the fraying social fabric that holds towns together.
Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if it was a mistake.
Produce and power are both costly in the state. So researchers are testing ways to address both issues using the same land.
Activists welcome the truce. But the backlash to their demonstrations, some said, offered sobering lessons about power and politics.
Ian Cleary sent Facebook messages to Shannon Keeler six years after he sexually assaulted her when they were college students in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.
Readers respond to a guest essay by Danielle Sassoon about her experience at N.Y.U. Also: A crackdown on science; a plea to the former presidents.
The Trump administration is closing in on a deal with the University of Virginia, four months after government pressure forced the school’s previous president to resign.
One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations.
At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.
Shutting out China’s best minds will only push them into a homegrown Chinese research ecosystem that is eclipsing American universities.
Los bolivianos elegirán su presidente en la segunda vuelta del domingo, que enfrenta a dos candidatos conservadores que prometen mejorar la economía y restaurar la confianza de la nación en el gobierno.
Bolivians will vote for president in Sunday’s runoff, which pits two conservative candidates promising to improve the economy and restore confidence in the nation’s governance.
At a time of financial and enrollment uncertainty in higher education, Vanderbilt University, along with other schools, has forged ahead with expansion.
Fifteen miles west of Manhattan, in Paterson, N.J., a community is directly, and often painfully, connected to a conflict half a world away.
He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.
Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics.
The Trump administration alienated many elite schools in its latest effort to overhaul higher education, so it looked elsewhere for allies.
People gathered at a house near the University of Cincinnati tumbled to the ground from a third-floor balcony, the fire department said. One person was in critical condition.
Chevron goza de una influencia inusual en la Venezuela socialista, lo que le permite al coloso energético beneficiarse de lo que pueda surgir de la crisis entre Washington y Caracas.
The arch will stand in the middle of the traffic roundabout at the end of Arlington Memorial Bridge, across from the Lincoln Memorial.
It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.
The young people who toppled the government are now confronting questions about what’s next, and who will deliver on their demands.
Chevron enjoys unusual sway in socialist-led Venezuela, positioning the energy colossus to gain from whatever comes of the crisis between Washington and Caracas.
Nearly two dozen private colleges are offering an online tool that factors in need-based grants and scholarships to estimate students’ actual costs.
The administration at Indiana University Bloomington fired the adviser to the paper and barred the publication from putting out a print edition.
A White House proposal for special funding treatment crossed a line for several schools. Some say it feels like a turning point in the federal government’s battle with higher education.
The postwar generation had a good run. Now we’re all paying for it.
His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers.
Penn is the third school to say no to the Trump administration’s offer of federal funding preferences in exchange for complying with certain requirements, such as protecting conservative voices.
The vaccines are proven to help protect pregnant women and their babies. But regulatory chaos and mixed messaging have made for a confusing landscape.
President Trump has used his position of authority to dole out flawed medical advice dating back to his first term, when he mused about injecting bleach to kill off the coronavirus.
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
According to a think tank’s analysis, another private college would attract the young talent that helps the city’s economy.
Two readers call for more federal funding for care of the sick and the elderly. Also: Data on drivers; Covid lessons; diversity in college admissions.
People with long Covid symptoms scored slightly lower on a cognitive test than people who had recovered. But long Covid patients who eventually got better scored as well as those whose symptoms did not last long.
In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients.