Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics, and she worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical part of the Manhattan Project tasked with ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — Early work is underway for an interactive, outdoor exhibit at the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. “Outdoor Balloon Adventure” is expected to bring ...

An 18-year-old student from Pasadena, California, placed first in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school students, winning $250,000. Matteo Paz ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half. But not ...

Aksh Ladegaonkar, a sophomore at International Baccalaureate at Bartow High School, won second place in the Dr. Nelson Ying Science Competition for his project on treating pancreatic cancer. Inspired ...

Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...

Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office. Censorship. Funding cuts. Layoffs. Those ...

For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Most people ...

There is nothing like being in the path of totality during a total solar eclipse. "For just a few minutes, it feels like the whole world stands still and yet everything changes," says Corinne Brevik, ...