An effort to organize a state science fair continues in Missouri despite Governor Mike Kehoe vetoing funds that would have gone toward a statewide science event for students.

A new Earth-observing satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, will be sent into orbit on Wednesday.

Spring was a season of success for North Shore schools’ science olympiad teams. New Trier High School and Marie Murphy School had historic finishes in the 41st annual Science Olympiad National Tournament on May 23-24, when they competed against peers from across the country. New Trier placed sixth overall in Division C for Grades 9-12; […]

In recent months, the Trump administration has terminated thousands of federally funded medical research grants, gutting $9.5 billion in critical health science efforts. More than half of those cuts — 1,246 grants worth $5.5 billion — targeted studies focused on LGBTQ+ health. These cuts don’t just reflect shifting policy priorities. They also risk limiting the […]

At the Polytechnic campus, the future of learning is here. Students taking BIO 100 The Living World as an elective and first-year students requiring biology credits for their major are slipping on headsets in the Dreamscape Learn pod and visiting fictional worlds to discover genetics, evolution, the scientific method, physiology, ecology and more. Students across majors — […]

In 1925, a young German physicist fled to the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea to ease a severe bout of hay fever. With nothing but daily walks and long swims to distract him, 23-year-old Werner Heisenberg had time to grapple with a conundrum. The macro world — of apples falling from trees […]

In a single experiment mimicking space’s extreme cold, vacuum, and radiation, scientists produced methanetetrol—upending our view of interstellar chemistry and hinting at richer, more dynamic molecular processes in the cosmos. Credit: Andrew Turner Scientists have created a once-theoretical molecule under space-like conditions, revealing new insights into the chemistry of the cosmos and the origins of […]

The Education Ministry and the Maimonides Fund’s Future Scientists Center proudly announced the final tally as the last three teams of the season returned.

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off Alaska and down Japan to the Philippines. Some geologists also include an Indonesian chain of volcanoes in the ring. […]

Mid-American Science Museum and Delta Dental of Arkansas are once again partnering for the annual Toothapalooza event set for Aug. 9.