Welcome to Doonesbury's web site, which features not only each day's strip (easily enlargeable for your easy-viewing pleasure), but also the daily SayWhat? quote, a constant flow of reader Blowback, a ...

In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and ...

Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly ...

BETHESDA, MD – As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

Is your idea of El Niño and La Niña mainly informed by a 1990s-era Chris Farley sketch from “Saturday Night Live?” The late comedian’s definition was hilarious, albeit a bit lacking in scientific ...

Product distributors are calling for changes to Oregon’s new statewide recycling program, saying fees that kicked in last year are making it hard to do business in the state. OPB’s April Ehrlich ...

The film Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, rightly emphasises the relationship between people and nature. We meet Agnes (Jessie Buckley, pictured above), Hamnet’s mother and wife of William ...

Ian Williams received funding from UK Research Councils to support this work. TRACE-P was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account (EPSRC IAA ...

David Joffe receives funding from NASA through a grant from the Georgia Space Grant Consortium. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer ...

What just happened? A team of physicists at MIT has managed to do something long thought impossible: peer into the ultrafast, quantum-scale motion of superconducting electrons. Using a microscope ...

What would you do if the sport you loved was at odds with your life’s work? This is not a hypothetical question for Jacquie Pierri. The Montclair native is a climate activist with a master’s degree in ...