America has funded scientific research since 1804 — and remembers that first project as a national glory. Cutting similar ...

Teachers don’t need expensive equipment or elaborate planning to engage their students in a meaningful exploration.

Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Join us for the Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase, where graduating seniors from Civil Engineering, Computer ...

A Portland State University fellow builds statistical tools that can sift useful signals. DNA and the patterns in genetic data. Illustration: The Digital Artist via Pixabay. Separating signal from ...

A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected ...

In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.

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Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

“Anyone can be brave. You just need someone to be brave for.” That’s both a key line and the moral of the story in Project Hail Mary, the remarkable new film starring Ryan Gosling, James Ortiz, and ...