Science Matters

Nearly every cell in your body contains the exact same DNA, from your skin cells to your brain cells. But how does a cell know how and when to turn into skin, muscle or brain?…

Collecting cores In September 2023, Ryan Thigpen, Mike McGlue, their students and a team of coring experts anchored a platform in the middle of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park and extracted…

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About 95% of the so-called known universe is a total mystery. We have no clue what it is except that it's weirdly different from any sort of matter or energy humans actually know anything about.

In August 2023, a combination of drought, hurricane winds and low humidity generated an unprecedented fire in Lahaina, a coastal city on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

As you dig your toes into the warm sand and watch waves crash into each other on a coastal beach, you might stop to wonder, what lives in the ocean?…

Exploring most of the world's oceans is technologically challenging, however, researchers are making progress and collecting more data about oceans than ever before.

What did you have for breakfast this morning? Bananas? Berries? Honey? Coffee?…

You likely have never heard a student exclaim at a school career day, "I want to go into quantum science!" But like the advances in computer science over the past 75 years that have made computers…

Less than a decade ago, SciStarter launched Citizen Science Day, which is dedicated to increasing awareness of citizen science and connecting volunteers to scientific projects in which they can…