Science Matters

The "aha!" moment for a researcher is special.

Supercomputers can complete tasks so impressive that they have outpaced science fiction movies. However, they do more than that, they can provide inspiration to the next generation of scientists.

A diverse scientific workforce is essential to a highly successful research enterprise.

The bee at the window, the ants on the porch, the beetle on the floor – they're all part of a vast underworld of insects that sustains the Earth and the humans that inhabit it.

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Though you may be familiar with the far-flung research on the impacts of a changing climate, like this study from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute about emperor penguins, climate change research is…

Science happens all over the country and around the world, from big research vessels and telescopes to small labs and classrooms.

2022 is the 65th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, or IGY, a collaborative, worldwide effort among 60 countries, 10,000 scientists and multiple scientific fields to study the Earth…

In a warm, humid forest clearing, the Tyrannosaurus rex was calmly chewing on the carcass of a duck-billed dinosaur, when a small white light appeared in the sky.

Environmental engineer Detlef Knappe was surveying water quality in North Carolina watersheds in 2013 when his team found something surprising in the Cape Fear River Basin: high levels of a group of…