The 1990s were a golden age for science fiction and fantasy television — a decade when imagination returned to primetime in a ...

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors are among a select group of newly annointed geniuses. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named atmospheric scientist Ángel Adames ...

Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend. By Michaela Towfighi Every new show comes with a lingering sense of ...

Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and inaugural director of the university's SNF Agora Institute, has been named one of 22 recipients of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, among ...

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. There is no question that the president had a ...

A Harvard mathematician and two Massachusetts graduates were chosen as 2025 MacArthur Fellows and honored with a “genius” grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, according to a ...

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A ...

Genius alert: Two names on the list of this year’s 22 MacArthur Foundation fellows may look familiar to some Santa Feans: Jeremy Frey and Tommy Orange. Frey (Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation) ...

Palm Beach County has terminated a contract with the MacArthur Foundation, refusing grant money intended to reduce the local jail population. The grant-funded programs had successfully reduced the ...

Three Yale alumni — the epidemiologist and harm reduction advocate Nabarun Dasgupta ’03 M.P.H.; archaeologist Kristina Douglass ’16 Ph.D.; and astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry ’16 — are among the 22 ...

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A cartographer, a composer, an archaeologist, a neurobiologist and an astrophysicist are among this year's MacArthur Fellows, one of the most prestigious cash awards given to "extraordinarily talented ...