The outcomes of California’s admissions experiment are even worse than predicted.

California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite, writes Svetlana Jitomirskaya, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley.

University of California faculty are in open revolt over the lack of standardized-test scores.

The University of California will consider bringing back SAT and ACT requirements for first-year admissions. UC ended test requirements in 2020.

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors by 2027, saying that the test-optional policy has created a widening prep...

Professor Raphael Bousso, Chancellor’s Chair in Physics, and newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts

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Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and indicted for declaring martial law in 2024.

An image like this could once change history. Can one still?

Columbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained.

As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first century, “the present moment in the science of

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New scientific accounts of the universe are expected to fit with observation and predicted results from established theories. But at the heart of modern physics, there's reason to think this is not th...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists will need to go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.

Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.

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“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump’s actions.

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

The Trump administration isn't defying the letter of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. But it's daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.