Science Matters

Though you may not realize it, as you scroll through the morning's headlines on your smartphone, you hold in your hands the culmination of years of federally funded academic research.

You open a letter from your grandmother. No money falls out, but you keep reading anyway.

This field trip has gone horribly wrong. A school bus full of third graders sits stranded, submerged in a dense, sticky substance with no way to escape. Then someone comes up with an idea.

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.

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

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…

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.