Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive ...

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How can emotions, and their influence on individuals and groups, be best conceptualized and studied by political scientists as well as by psychologists? Empirical work indicates that psychological ...

The Trump Administration’s newly released Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions memorandum represents a fundamental realignment of federal science ...

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

Some Baltimore County elementary schools failed to properly teach science to students in previous years, likely because they prioritized English language studies instead, according to district ...

Allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection Dr. Martin Kulldorff didn’t actually do anything of value this ...