Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...

Scientific progress in the United States faces a series of threats. These disruptions have slashed federal research funding; upended the scientific process; dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion ...

You’re walking home on a busy day, exhausted and longing for a couch. As you round the corner, a blur whizzes past, and the roar of wind fills your ears. You stare curiously at the fading figure — a ...

Joachim Frank, laureate in chemistry, receives his Nobel Prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, right, during the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10, 2017. As a scientist with ...

Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

Torrey Pines Elementary School parent Julie Pilotte, a research scientist for biotech company Amydis, demonstrates dry ice during the La Jolla school's Science Discovery Day last year. (Elisabeth ...

Although recognized more readily as a wellspring of political and historical figures, the Historic Triangle has also birthed a steady stream of scientists across the years. This genealogy includes ...

Yes, climate change is a complex and complicated issue that finds itself right at the intersection of science, engineering, technology, economics, politics, and social-environmental justice. Climate ...

I touched a microscope for the very first time thanks to my teacher lugging them into our classroom at Winter Park High School. Once I saw those delicate onion cells close up, I was hooked on biology.

Why do we think of STEM, history and the arts as separate categories, when each informs and enriches the other? A statue of scientist Joseph Henry stands in Academy Park in Albany. As I walked past a ...