NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who are set to train for missions to the Moon and potentially for Mars. Their selection represents an assessment of both their talent and ambition. Are ...

Everyone takes it for granted that the sun will go on shining until he dies—and, as a matter of lesser interest, for a long time after he dies. Astrophysicists, who believe the solar star-stuff has ...

Long before Brookhaven’s scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee ...

To make the plants glow, Liu and her fellow researchers injected the leaves of the succulent Echeveria “Mebina” with strontium aluminate, a material often used in glow-in-the-dark toys that absorbs ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia is for sure a marvel of engineering and an incredible observatory. It is busy creating the most accurate map of the Milky Way, measuring the position and motions of ...

ORONO, Maine (WABI) - Every year the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance hosts a middle school science and engineering fair. These young scientists from school districts around the region were busy ...

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