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UK academics whose research is critical of China say they have been targeted and their universities subjected to “extremely heavy” pressure from Beijing, prompting calls for…

Donald Trump’s defunding of scientific research and proposed new charges on migrant labor will not be enough to deter international academics from heading to America, given…

Two American academics were among the three winners of this year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. They were given the…

Three academics affiliated with U.S. universities have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation…

Academics and students of Chinese studies in Britain are being subject to harassment, surveillance and pressure to self-censor as they seek to avoid disruption to funding,…

It was on a US-bound flight in March, as Brian Sandberg stressed about whether he would be stopped at security, that the American historian knew the…

UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics from bullying and career-threatening restrictions on their research, according to a report.The report, by Prof Alice Sullivan of…

From left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Trump and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Jack Guez and Piroschka Van De Wouw/Pool/AFP, Office of…

Carter Freshour, 22, plans to move to Madrid to finish his business degree. Photograph: Nina Paz/CourtesyEric Schuster was over the moon when he landed a lab…

Two academics who sued their own union after being called transphobic have had their discrimination claims rejected by an employment tribunal.Dr Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at…