Sethuraman Panchanathan has spent his career finding "win-win" situations

The new Department of Homeland Security rule prohibits international students from returning to or remaining in the United States if their colleges adopt an online-only instruction model for the fall.

The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.

163 years of The Atlantic's writing on race and racism in America.

Operation Warp Speed's chooses largely unproven vaccine technologies for fast-tracking.

With student enrolment projected to fall, some US and UK institutions have halted recruitment.

If President Trump sidelines the World Health Organization, experts foresee incoherence, inefficiency and resurgence of deadly diseases.

Agency would get a huge infusion of cash, and responsibility for maintaining U.S. global leadership in innovation, under bipartisan bills that have just been introduced in both houses of Congress.

While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot block recipients of agency funding from participating on its science advisory boards, a federal judge said yesterday.

Coronavirus death counts are based on positive tests and driven by hospital deaths. But data from major metropolitan areas shows a spike in at-home deaths, prompting one expert to say current numbers were just "the tip of the iceberg."