In December 2001, a small but lively meeting in Budapest, Hungary, launched a whole new international movement. The resulting Budapest Open Access Initiative opened with the words: "An old tradition ...

While climate activists call on oil and gas giants to ‘keep it in the ground,’ many products of our modern way of life – from clothing and cosmetics to detergents and medicines – come from the biggest ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded this morning to two American biochemists, for their discoveries about how water and salts move into and out of living cells. The discoveries hold ...

In what he refers to as his “parallel career,” Dr. Peter Hotez has made it his mission to tackle systematic anti-science bias. In addition to being a vaccine scientist, Hotez -- with his signature ...

The anti-science movement has set up the United States and the world up for a worse Covid-19 pandemic than otherwise would have been, infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez argued Thursday. “An ...

Brief, intentional movement, known as exercise snacks or mindful motion, can dramatically improve posture, focus, stress resilience, productivity and mental well-being. However, framing movement as ...

The rise of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s brought a growing public awareness of environmental damage caused by chemical pesticides such as DDT, as well as mounting outrage at ...