Earth is about to witness a close celestial visitor as asteroid 2025 OL1 approaches our planet. Roughly the size of a small aircraft, measuring about 110 feet in diameter, this space rock will make its closest pass on July 30, 2025. Travelling at an impressive speed of 16,904 miles per hour, it will safely skim […]

It can be easy to think of science as a set of silos: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine – the list goes on. After all, that’s how science is usually split up in high school and university.  In reality, those lines are just lines. No one can learn everything, so we draw lines to mark the […]

Storm Team4 Meteorologist Ryan Miller describes ways to encourage children to read and write in a fun way through everyday tasks.

White House budgets, generally speaking, aren’t serious governing documents. Even so, they’re a declaration of national priorities — and by that measure, the latest blueprint is deeply troubling. What sort of administration aspires to shrink its budget for scientific discovery by 40%? Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently testified before a […]

Illustration: Wouter Tjeenk Willink/The Guardian Science is in crisis. Funding infrastructures for both basic and applied research are being systematically decimated, while in places of great power, science’s influence on decision making is waning. Long-term and far-reaching studies are being shuttered, and thousands of scientists’ livelihoods are uncertain, to say nothing of the incalculable casualties […]

Robert F Kennedy Jr says he did not join Donald Trump’s cabinet to be another government bureaucrat but to drive change. And on that, at least, he has been as good as his word. In the five months since he was confirmed as Trump’s secretary of health and human services, the wayward scion of America’s […]

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OAKLAND, Calif. – The Chabot Space and Science Center is set to launch a new series of interactive events for families this week with a special program called Space Week, running from Wednesday through Aug. 3. Geared toward children ages 6 to 12 and their families, Space Week offers a variety of hands-on exhibits that […]