The future is both thrilling and terrifying. It’s normal to feel both. That’s especially true in thinking about the role of technology. For every aspect of life in which technology could play a role, ...

Rosemary Mosco adored the the funny pages of her local newspaper as a child. Her favorite, Bloom County, featured a charismatic talking penguin named Opus with an endlessly whimsical outlook. As a ...

Hopefully the reader can be more surprised by jokes that come out of the sober world of laboratories, charts, formulas, experiments, machines and diagrams.” ...

AT one time or another, just about every parent has plopped a kid in front of the television to watch cartoons while Mom or Dad goes to make dinner or take care of some other household chore. A new ...

The Journal of College Science Teaching provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on and experiences with undergraduate science courses, particularly those for nonscience majors. JCST also reports ...

The prime target for the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is discovery and study of the Higgs boson — but what the heck is the Higgs, and what's it supposed to do? PHD Comics' Jorge Cham explains the ...

Garfield Kwan and Dana Song. (Courtesy Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego) It’s 2020 and aquarists just discovered how to breed seadragons in-house: a combination of proper lighting, noise, tank size, and more.