During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even if you aren't a ...

Colangelo milked the program all year long for project-based-learning opportunities, across a wide range of disciplines. She ...

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Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the ...

Xcel’s Boulder Coal Ash Cleanup Is Moving Forward. Critics Say Another Source of Pollution Remains. Colorado regulators are reviewing Xcel Energy’s final plan to clean up groundwater contamination ...

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say. By Alexis Soloski “The stars weren’t big enough,” ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.