5/15/2013 - The New York Times
If engineers cannot restore a mechanism that keeps the Kepler spacecraft’s telescope pointed, one of the most romantic and successful of NASA’s missions could come to a premature end.
5/15/2013 - BBC News
Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists.
5/8/2013 - ScienceInsider
Eugenie Scott has spent 26 years helping teachers do what's right for their students in the name of science. And while the need to defend the teaching of evolution and climate change certainly hasn't disappeared, Scott announced today that she is stepping down later this year as the founding CEO and "the public face" of the National Center for Science Education.
4/30/2013 - Discovery News
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space.
4/29/2013 - Los Angeles Times
British billionaire Richard Branson’s commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space when a test pilot cracked the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. For the first time, the company's SpaceShipTwo engaged its rocket motor and sped to Mach 1.2 and reached 56,000 feet in altitude.
4/22/2013 - The Washington Post
Last week, a bipartisan Senate panel unveiled an 844-page bill that would give U.S. immigration policies their biggest makeover in a generation. Included in the massive proposal: much higher limits on the number of “high-tech visas,” officially called H-1B visas.
4/19/2013 - ScienceInsider
A proposed reshuffling of federal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs in the United States would move the Department of Education (ED) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the head of the class. Their new status would be a major change for the federal government, which now spends nearly $3 billion on 226 STEM education programs run by a dozen agencies.
4/19/2013 - The New York Times
Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission said Thursday that a pair of newly discovered planets in the constellation Lyra appear capable of supporting life.
4/8/2013 - NBC News
Researchers at the University of Washington say they've built all the pieces for a fusion-powered rocket system that could get a crew to Mars in 30 days. Now they just have to put the pieces together and see if they work.
4/3/2013 - Science Now
The first results from a huge—and hugely controversial—cosmic ray detector aboard the International Space Station confirm a previously reported excess of antiparticles from space.
3/28/2013 - NSF.gov
The National Science Board has announced that accomplished educator Jo Anne Vasquez is the recipient of its 2013 Public Service Award for an individual. Vasquez is known nationally and internationally for her efforts to create sustainable change in teaching K-12 science.
3/28/2013 - NSF.gov
The National Science Board has announced that accomplished educator Jo Anne Vasquez is the recipient of its 2013 Public Service Award for an individual. Vasquez is known nationally and internationally for her efforts to create sustainable change in teaching K-12 science.
3/25/2013 - The New York Times
After its contributions to science, the HeLa cells may help create laws to protect the privacy of the family of Henrietta Lacks—and yours.
3/25/2013 - Huffington Post
Having skills suited for a variety of careers helps explain why few women pursue math and science jobs, new research finds.
3/18/2013 - Scientific American
Two researchers argue that governments need to coordinate a legal framework to allow for geoengineering experiments.
3/15/2013 - Whitehouse.gov
President Barack Obama greeted and talked with the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, March 12, 2013.
3/12/2013 - TheHill.com
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Intel founder and CEO Andrew Grove used to say that a green card should come stapled to every science Ph.D. awarded in the United States. Grove, an immigrant from Hungary, was hardly joking. At a time when companies were scrambling for talent, foreign-born scientists and engineers were a key to filling the gap and helping companies in America compete globally and create good U.S. jobs. Fifteen years later they still are.
3/11/2013 - The New York Times
The annual Intel Science Talent Search, with 40 finalists from more than 1,700 applicants this year, encourages young students to enter a life of science.
3/8/2013 - CNN
Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest—in just one century.
3/5/2013 - The New York Times (requires free registration)
At the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, two armies of scientists struggled to close in on physics' most elusive particle.
2/27/2013 - Huffington Post
It's a good time to be a particle physicist. The long-sought Higgs boson particle seems finally to have been found at an accelerator in Geneva, and scientists are now hot on the trail of another tiny piece of the universe, this one tied to a new fundamental force of nature.
2/25/2013 - Leesburg Today
Thirty Loudoun County [VA] high school girls who have a knack for science were invited to visit with one of the most respected scientists in the field of theoretical computer science and physics—Jennifer Tour Chayes—at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus last week.
2/25/2013 - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Is that legal? Richard Stone and Lassina Zerbo discuss North Korea's latest nuclear test.
2/24/2013 - The Huffington Post UK
Physicists may have finally found hard evidence for the existence of dark matter. Reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston say the announcement could come within the next fortnight - if the data hold up.
2/21/2013 - BBC News
UK scientists exploring the ocean floor in the Caribbean discover an "astounding" set of hydrothermal vents, the deepest in the world.