Science/Math

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2019 -- On April 26, 1986, the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Complex nuclear reactor 4 exploded. This week on Reactions, we talk about the chemistry behind this…

Next Gen Energy X receives diversity award for stem outreachCredit: University of Houston A program designed to introduce women and underrepresented minorities to jobs in the energy industry has been named one of INSIGHT Into…

Undergraduate researchers with LEAP Scholars program publish findingsCredit: Samantha Lloyd/ASU VisLab Getting involved in research as an undergraduate can have significant benefits, such as enhancing a student's ability to think…

SPIE endowed chair in optical sciences at the University of Arizona is inaugural contribution from the international society's new endowment-matching programCredit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK - Today, SPIE, the…

Credit: Brian Persinger/West Virginia University When West Virginia University first offered cybersecurity classes in 2003, the gravest fear of a casual Internet user might have been opening an infected email attachment that…

New Haven, Conn. -- A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata -- art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered…

Brittany Seto '16, who studied computer science at UC Riverside, interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a record number of UCR undergraduates are spending the summerCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech RIVERSIDE, Calif. --…

New book provides extraordinary new insights including emergent evolutionary potential and the generative phenotype.Credit: World Scientific In the cover photo, nature photographer Andreas Kay has captured one of the most striking…

Graspable Inc. will develop its app prototype into a classroom-ready product BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Graspable Inc., an Indiana University-related startup, has received a two-year, $900,000 SBIR Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of…

University will work with Cincinnati Museum Center and La Soupe to bring program to lifeCredit: Kent State University Science is complex, and it's difficult to discuss it with children under the best circumstances; it's even…