Everything is glowing in Bruce Suba”s Scotts Valley garage. Over there a vertical glass tube contains what appears to be an endless loop of orange lightning. A large commercial neon sign gives the ...

During the recent ESA Centennial Meeting in mid-August, ESA Past-presidents gathered in Baltimore to discuss NEON’s (National Ecological Observatory Network) future. Here are some thoughts we’d like ...

In many plant breeding programs, secondary traits other than the main trait of interest, are routinely collected throughout the year. These layers of information are referred to as ‘omics’, and ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea anemones -- those soft and tentacled tide pool creatures often encountered by beachgoers. For the first ...

Always a magnet for scientists of every stripe, Boulder will see an extra infusion of them in coming days with more than 170 descending on the city for an “unconference” billed as the NEON Science ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a highly competitive five-year award to Battelle for the continued operations and maintenance of the National ...

THE phrase “Big Science” brings to mind rockets, telescopes and particle accelerators. When it comes to grand scientific gestures—and the cash that goes therewith—those who wield field glasses and ...