Tag: University

Trump nominates Dr. Oz to head Medicare and Medicaid and help take on 'illness industrial complex'

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he plans to nominate Oz Mehmet, a celebrity heart surgeon and former daytime television host, as...

Prominent USC scientist goes on leave amid research misconduct allegations

A prominent neuroscientist at USC is on leave nearly a year after allegations of research misconduct cast doubt on his published work...

Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates. 'We're going to pay for it,' experts say

Every week, Caitlin Scuttio stops by Target and piles her cart with pureed food pouches for her 4-year-old and twin 18-month-olds sons.In...

Former Caltech and Google scientists win physics Nobel for pioneering artificial intelligence

On Tuesday morning, Princeton University professor John Hopfield and University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024...

Drug-resistant germs will kill millions more people in coming decades, researchers warn

Since the dawn of the antibiotic age, opportunistic pathogens have evolved defenses faster than humans can develop drugs to combat them.At the...

After contentious tenure atop sacred Hawaiian summit, Caltech observatory gets dismantled

After decades of mounting tension between scientists and native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of...