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Chee-Huat Linus Eng: Young American Scientist capturing a cell's genetic activity in real-time

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:50am

Creating techniques to allow scientists to see biological processes in real time

Categories: Astronomy

See how academic freedom is changing around the world

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:50am

Some countries have seen a stark decline in academic freedom over the past decade

Categories: Astronomy

Emily Finn: Young American Scientist studying how people interpret the same things differently

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:49am

Studying why people interpret the same thing in different ways

Categories: Astronomy

Science’s rising stars

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:49am

There are bright futures ahead for our first-ever Young American Scientist honorees

Categories: Astronomy

Jaye Gardiner: Young American Scientist studying the environment around cancers

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:48am

Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers

Categories: Astronomy

Trevor GrandPre: Young American Scientist studying self-organizing structures in cells called biomolecular condensates

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:47am

Building models to understand how self-organizing structures in cells lead to disease

Categories: Astronomy

Anna Ho: Young American Scientist studying astronomical transients

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:46am

Describing the characteristics of short-lived astrophysical events

Categories: Astronomy

Kaiyi Jiang

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:45am

Creating AI platforms to discover new therapeutics

Categories: Astronomy

JianJun Jin

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:44am

Formulating software for the study of plant genomes

Categories: Astronomy

Dmitrii Kochkov

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:43am

Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather

Categories: Astronomy

Mikhail Kolmogorov

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:42am

Developing software to reveal large genetic changes that lead to cancer

Categories: Astronomy

Erini Lambrides

Tue, 06/16/2026 - 5:41am

Characterizing the “Little Red Dots” to decipher the beginnings of galaxies

Categories: Astronomy

Glaciers are secretly teeming with life

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 3:00pm

What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?

Categories: Astronomy

Russia seeks mathematician’s extradition

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 2:15pm

Mikhail Verbitsky was detained at an Armenian airport last Thursday on charges of inciting terrorism

Categories: Astronomy

NASA’s Chandra Observatory spots possible supernova remnant in the middle of our galaxy

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 6:00am

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way

Categories: Astronomy