When asked, "What area or application of science do you feel holds the most potential for the future?" acclaimed science fiction author and form__er astrophysicist__ David Brin took the challenge in ...

Biomedical scientists today stand in a position not dissimilar to that of our ancient ancestors. A thousand years from now, we will be viewed as naïve and of limited means. Yet, it's quite possible ...

Above and below left: Two groups used magnets to demonstrate superconductivity. Above left, a magnet levitates over a foam cup filled with liquid nitrogen. Below left, electrical engineering graduate ...

Each room contained science instruments dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries: hand-carved celestial globes, sundials, astrolabes, Crookes and cathode ray tubes (which led to the discovery of ...

The table of contents for poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s new book of essays reads like a list of evolution’s most fantastic products. The comb jelly, which pulses with rainbow bioluminescence. The ...

Hoosiers don't always agree on what constitutes sex: Indiana University's Kinsey Institute tracks (among other things) the public's attitude towards sex, and recently published the results of a survey ...

Today’s foremost Russian scientist is grouchy, white-whiskered, 86-year-old Ivan Petrovich Pavlov whose research on the salivary glands won him a Nobel Prize in Medicine (1904) even before his greater ...

Forum: Join an online discussion about whether Harvard’s president made a mistake in suggesting that innate differences between the sexes explain why fewer women succeed in some fields. If he did make ...