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Photo illustration: Alex Hogan/STAT; Source photo: AFP via Getty One day last August, as they struggled to figure out whether to lift Covid-19 restrictions, the supervisors of Placer County, California, convened a panel of experts. It was a reasonable move. If being a local official could be thankless in normal times, the pandemic had made it nearly impossible. Federal messaging had been hopelessly muddled. Rules meant to stop viral spread came with painful side effects. One constituent insist...

ERC celebrates 10,000th grantee of frontier research awards During an online ceremony on 6 May, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President David Sassoli and other European leaders expressed their strong support for frontier research and the European Research Council. The event was the occasion to mark reaching the landmark of 10,000 top researchers having been supported by the European Union through ERC grants across Europe. European Commissioner for Inno...

2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science Avi Wigderson and László Lovász will share the annual prize that aims to be something like the Nobel for mathematics. Winners of the Abel Prize, Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., left, and László Lovász of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Credit...Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study, left; Laszlo Mudra/Hungarian Academy of Sciences March 17, 2021 Two math...

Reply(1) Each of the 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search receives a $2,000 award, plus another $2,000 which goes to their school. (Shutterstock) UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Five students at Upper East Side high schools are among the 300 students announced as "scholars" in a prestigious annual math and science competition. Each of the 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search receives a $2,000 award, plus another $2,000 which goes to their school. The competition, held sinc...