Earth is spinning so fast that global timekeepers are considering something that’s never been done before: adding a negative leap second. So far this year, July 9 and July 22 have been unusually short — by about 1.3 and 1.4 milliseconds, respectively. However, Aug. 5 is expected to be even shorter, losing roughly 1.5 milliseconds, […]

When Zach Groshell zoomed in as a guest on a longstanding British education podcast last March, a co-host began the interview by telling listeners he was “very well-known over in the U.S.” Groshell, a former Seattle-area fourth-grade teacher, had to laugh: “Nobody knows me here in the U.S.,” he said in an interview. But in […]

Published 2 hours ago Submitted by Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) The future is brighter with heroes like these.  Our PSEG Foundation is proud to support Douglass Residential College’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program, helping empower young women in STEM through professional development, mentoring with PSEG leaders and career-building experiences.  Together, we’re helping […]

Almost 150 workers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have lambasted Donald Trump’s cuts to the agency as “politically motivated and legally questionable”, joining colleagues at three other federal research agencies in warning that the administration is destroying innovation and sacrificing the US’s position as a global scientific leader. The three-page dissent states the actions […]

The foundation of the military superiority of the United States, and therefore of our national security, rests on our investments in science and technology. As the Trump administration has set about slashing federal funding for science, the cuts to the Defense Departments core science and technology accounts are particularly troubling. We are in a long-term […]

GFAJ-1 grown on arsenic. — NASA Keith’s note: Science magazine is retracting a NASA paper they published 15 years ago – “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus” but they are not saying exactly why they are doing so – other than a new standard they just invented. And it took […]