www.npr.org Jeffrey Epstein funded science research and created a conference in 2006 that was organized by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. Stephen Hawking and other notable scientists attended the event in the U.S. Virgin Islands. JPL-Caltech/NASA, Getty Images and Department of Justice/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption toggle caption JPL-Caltech/NASA, Getty Images and Department of Justice/Collage […]

For Lily Grace Thome, it was love at first sight. It was the spring of her junior year at Auburn University, and Thome was trying to figure out what she wanted to do post-grad as a double major in PR and marketing. She had a few friends heading off to Vanderbilt University for graduate school, […]

www.aljazeera.com Tehran, Iran – Commanders, politicians and religious authorities in Iran are rallying around the flag and hinting at a prolonged war after Mojtaba Khamenei was selected as supreme leader as the country is under fire from the United States and Israel. The 88-member Assembly of Experts, made up of religious leaders, approved the second son of […]

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the Trump administration. After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez for refusing what her lawyers called “the dangerous politicization of science,” […]

Google I/O 2026 is nearly upon us. This is Google’s annual opportunity to showcase the software features (and perhaps some of the hardware) the company has been cooking up behind the scenes. Like other big tech keynotes, anyone can tune in live and catch Google’s latest announcements as they happen. Here’s when Google I/O 2026 […]