The White House says the firing of the entire National Science Board on April 24 was driven by “constitutional questions” ...

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An independent investigative board presented its final report on the failure of the Mars Observer mission to NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin on January 5. Communication with the spacecraft, which had ...

Drawing on data from the physics-based FIRETEC model, a nonlinear dynamical approach examines time series for a variety of ...

Advances to optoelectronic tweezers can address some of the challenges that limit their biochemical and biomedical ...

Intrinsically disordered proteins have no single structure, making them challenging for traditional structural biology ...

Early in tumor development, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) detach from primary or metastatic lesions and are important ...

(Inside Science) -- Back in the 1600s, lacking an alternative, doctors tried transfusing milk and wine into the bloodstreams of their hemorrhaging patients. When that failed, they moved on to sheep’s ...

NOAA’s administrator faced criticism from House representatives over the proposed elimination of key R&D programs.

(Inside Science) -- Have you ever played with a pocket-sized laser, wondering how far its light would travel? Could you, a naughty student inside a classroom on Earth, annoy a poor substitute teacher ...

Newtonian fluid. “The tethered swimmer can measure the zero-shear first normal stress coefficient, which is not achievable on ...