The China Initiative is the ‘most important thing’ for Chinese scientists’ migration to the US

The China Initiative is the 'most important thing' for Chinese scientists' migration to the US

A growing number of ethnic Chinese scientists have chosen to leave America and return to China in recent years – a flow accelerated by a US government investigation that tried to combat economic espionage but ended up indicting academics, a Stanford University study found. Although most of China was born, it was founded in the … Read more

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History encourages kids to become space scientists

Kennedi Johnson, 9, from left, Orlando Plasencia, 10, and William Booker, 10, react as Penny ...

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is bringing science into classrooms this summer. Thanks to the program called “GSK Science in the Summer,” children in grades 2 to 6 get the opportunity to explore different career paths in science and technology. Related:A UT-Arlington scientist’s research could have an impact on a serious problem: … Read more

A simple needle in a seaweed: Scientists discover a new species of chordate

A simple needle in a seaweed

Nuucichthys rhynchocephalus gen. and sp. nov. from the Druian Marjum Formation of the House Range of Utah, USA. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240350 The Cambrian fossil record shows that many animal phyla were diverse and inhabited the Earth’s oceans about 518 million years ago. But while chordates—a group that includes vertebrates like … Read more