Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong ...

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This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. A little more than a century ago a diagnosis ...

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use maritime might to create a global empire. Beginning in 1405, Ming Dynasty admiral ...

The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza. First, let’s take a quick tour through ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

In October 2021, the Washington Examiner began Restoring America, a campaign founded on a “stark” diagnosis of the state of the nation.

ST. LOUIS --Enterprise, the National Hockey League (NHL®) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) today announced a multiyear extension of their North American partnership. An NHL ...

Inside View: WSJ columnist Andy Kessler would rather be subjected to Jimmy Kimmel than protected from him by government. Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You might know Chris Hadfield as the International Space Station commander who famously sang David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” ...

Federal agencies are stirring up anxiety over pregnancy meds—with the FDA questioning antidepressant safety and HHS linking Tylenol to autism. But a leading reproductive psychiatrist says this ...

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...