Science Matters

You're going to live in a quantum future.

1. Rather than choose between pursuing a career in chemistry or the arts, Madeline Corona pursued a role where she could do both.

As the gears of war slowed, the din grew quiet. World War II was ending and Vannevar Bush recognized that the United States stood at a crossroads.

He speaks in terms like "inspiration," "creativity," "innovation mindset," and "the science spirit." Sethuraman Panchanathan grins as he describes himself: "I'm an eternal optimist." He goes by "Panch…

You banked years of late nights in the lab crunching data and grading papers.

MagLab The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory resides on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

It was an oceanographic research cruise that, as scientist Russ Hopcroft of the University of Alaska Fairbanks says, "was just plain strange." Like almost everything this spring.

For computational biophysicist Gregory Bowman, sleep these days is hard to come by.

Humans may have mapped and explored much of the world’s continental terrain, but roughly 80% of the planet remains mysterious.

Q&A with Erin Heard, Station Manager of McMurdo Station Q. What is your role in USAP? I am the NSF winter station manager for McMurdo Station.