This plan "on the edge of science and science fiction" involves an asteroid, an expandable mesh bag and lots of audacity. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist ...

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ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — Anastasia Khvorova is perched at the edge of a massive scientific opportunity. Her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School deploys cutting-edge RNA biology ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...

Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in Santee. This fall will be my third time teaching introductory computer science inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Energy ...

Director Diego Klabjan shares the reasons for renaming the MSiA program the Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science program Ten years ago, Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science ...

SAN FRANCISCO—They came to testify to the life-saving benefits of medical research. They came to explain how scientific discoveries avert disasters and keep skyscrapers standing during earthquakes.