Dr. Peter Piot was among the first scientists to see the Ebola virus, as a young researcher in Belgium in 1976.

Chinese A.I. companies like Deepseek and Moonshot have made a name for themselves internationally. But China still struggles to recruit foreign researchers.

A Russian drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine, killed at least two people on Monday.

McGill University in Montreal is one of the schools that has benefited from the Canada-bound brain drain from U.S. institutions.

A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. The United States imposed a monthslong blockade on Iran’s shipments of oil, the nation’s economic engine.

Jérôme Dupras, the bass player in Les Cowboys Fringants, one of Quebec’s most famous rock bands, was recently appointed as chief scientist of Quebec.

A satellite image provided by Vantor shows an entrance to tunnels at Pickaxe Mountain in Iran last month.

A Long March 10B rocket blasting off from the Wenchang spaceport in Hainan, China, on Friday.

A health worker in the town of Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, collecting medication for patients suspected of having Bundibugyo virus last month.