Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics, and she worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical part of the Manhattan Project tasked with ...
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An 18-year-old student from Pasadena, California, placed first in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school students, winning $250,000. Matteo Paz ...
U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half. But not ...
Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...
Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office. Censorship. Funding cuts. Layoffs. Those ...
For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Most people ...