For decades, science educators have been encouraged to "stick to the science" and leave politics at the classroom door. But ...
1876, The Mygale Spider: "This 'trapdoor' creature carries its eggs enclosed in a closely woven cocoon of white silk, forming ...
In 2022, Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel Prize for the first proof of quantum entanglement, a notion that Albert Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a ...
On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...
Kolkata has long carried the reputation of being a city of libraries, laboratories, observatories and public debate. Its ...
Science has an image problem. Many people think of it as a collection of unchanging facts carved in stone by lab coat-wearing authorities. But the reality is far more fascinating. Science isn’t about ...
An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...