NASA excels at bold projects. Consider the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is rewriting cosmology and revealing profound insights into stellar evolution, along with precious views of our own ...

Have you ever wondered how scientists create new medicines, make plants resistant to pests, or even use tiny living things to clean up pollution? All these amazing feats fall under a fascinating field ...

NASA's plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there's a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving Mars soil and rocks has been on NASA's to-do list ...

How many shells are there on this stretch of beach? What sorts of insects live in the park? What fraction of the cars that drive past my house are silver? There are all sorts of questions involving ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A fragment of plutonium sits in the University of California-Berkeley Hazardous Material Facility, locked in 6-foot-by-6-foot windowless room. It's been hanging around Berkeley for decades, like some ...