Science Matters

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…

Packing foam is forever – it can't be recycled, and its petroleum-based plastic components can persist in the environment for centuries.

For nearly 200 years, in the great pursuit of knowledge about aerodynamics, researchers have been fascinated by paper airplanes.

The Pacific Islands have unique, diverse environments and marine ecosystems — reef fish live among coral in crystal blue waters; turtles graze sea grass beds; tangled mangrove roots shelter tiny fish…

A black hole in our backyard Because it's located at the center of the Milky Way, understanding how Sgr A* functions is fundamental to the larger goal of understanding how our galaxy formed and…

West of Boston is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI — where the school song has 13 math expressions.

A stereotype of the digital age revolution is one of lone inventors tinkering away in their garage designing the first personal computer or launching a fledgling dot com retail site.

There are infinite pathways into STEM.

In 2021, researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, began test-piloting the Hurricane Risk Calculator web app.