There are many reasons to hope that the US public will someday receive a quality education in the sciences. For the majority of its citizens, however, one of the most compelling arguments will be one ...

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I am teaching physical science this semester. It appears that I will be teaching it again this summer. Ideally, I would like to switch to something like Physics and Everyday Thinking for large lecture ...

Stick figure science takes off in the new book "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words." (Excerpted from "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple ...

Evoking thoughts of Gattaca, the 1997 film in which genetic engineering is used to make new and supposedly improved people, an eagerly anticipated report out Tuesday stopped short of recommending a ...

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Orlando, FL­­–based PureCycle Technologies has partnered with EXPLR Media to educate the younger generation about plastic recycling with an episode of EXPLR’s new Everyday Science Stuff TV series.

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In January 1953, deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, was known to scientists numbered in the low hundreds. Its function puzzled, at most, a few score. The question of its three-dimensional molecular structure ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s going to happen. Math and science tell us so. The Great American Eclipse will sweep across the United States on Monday, Aug. 21, plunging a 60- to 70-mile wide swath of the ...