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 ...

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Students across North Carolina are pasting hypotheses and conclusions on tri-fold poster boards, filling in notebooks with observations and other data, and preparing to share their science fair ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opening the discussion, moderator Dan Ferrisi highlighted the panelists’ preference for detailed project scopes, setting the stage for a deep dive into their philosophies. Chirico emphasized that ...

The Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch — has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing ...

Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference on failure didn’t go ...

This July 2023 photo provided by Ashley Dayer shows Dayer in the Adirondacks, N.Y. (Ashley Dayer). Adirondacks in 2023 (Uncredited) Ashley Dayer's dream of winning a National Science Foundation grant ...

The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s being dismantled. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington For more than a ...

4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially successful ...