Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

Washburn Rural High School students are conducting biomedical research in hopes of finding pharmaceutical solutions.

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In February, cuts in federal funding for research from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation ...

As the C language, which forms the basis of critical global software like operating systems, faces security limitations, ...

Recent headlines highlighted the possibility that paper receipts may contain toxic chemicals. Here’s what the risks may be — and how to handle them safely.

The shutdown brought the scale of the federal food aid program into focus and raised questions about how such a rich country ...

When Chris van Bergen, the executive director of Public Exchange at Washington University, encountered USC’s CLEAN project, a ...

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

The National Natural Science Foundation of China surpassed NASA as the field’s largest acknowledged research funder in ...

That poses a moral problem for the average person: You see kids starving. You see the ways in which you seem powerless to ...