Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
If anyone thought scientists were somehow different from ordinary people-nobler, more ethical, more pure-then events over the past two years have been a sharp wake-up …
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If anyone thought scientists were somehow different from ordinary people-nobler, more ethical, more pure-then events over the past two years have been a sharp wake-up …
What weighs up to 5,000 pounds, looks permanently distraught, and relies on interspecies friends for basic hygiene? The ocean sunfish is the world’s heaviest fish, …
The changes spaceflight induces in astronauts are much more than skin deep. Space travel strongly affects the way genes are expressed, or turned on and …
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah-Like many places across the West, Lake Powell seems impossibly large, mythical almost, with its rich red rock canyon walls …
Top representatives from vehicle manufacturers and utilities are joining forces to find ways to cut the U.S. transportation system’s energy use in half by 2050. …
In 1996, a small, fluffy carnivore called Sinosauropteryx became the first dinosaur known to have had feathers. In 2010, it entered the ranks of the first dinosaurs …
For the first time ever, an asteroid or comet from another star has been caught hurtling through our solar system, astronomers announced late Thursday. Provisionally …
Nearly two-thirds of Americans, mostly in Western states and on the Eastern seaboard, have endured more days of extreme summer heat over the past 10 …
A long time ago in a galaxy far away-NGC 4993, to be exact-two neutron stars collided and created a spectacular light show. After billions of …
Summer and fall 2017 saw an unusual string of record-breaking hurricanes pummel the U.S. Gulf Coast, eastern seaboard, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Hurricane Harvey …
On Oct. 17, Curiosity pressed its drill against a Martian rock for the first time since December 2016, as part of a test designed to …
Physicists sometimes say that a beam of light traveling through space is like a “great smoky dragon.” One can know much about where the light …