For decades, science educators have been encouraged to "stick to the science" and leave politics at the classroom door. But ...

1876, The Mygale Spider: "This 'trapdoor' creature carries its eggs enclosed in a closely woven cocoon of white silk, forming ...

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In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...

Using a variety of techniques, the researchers realized that two subspecies of squirrels from Southeast Asia were actually unique species in their own right Jack Tamisiea In many urban environments, ...

A slender thread of memory connects a Texas Hill Country man to a discovery that transformed modern technology. In 1916, Fred Schmidt’s grandfather, Jan Czochralski (1885-1953), a largely self-taught ...

Tyrone Laws is speaking to educators, students and community members about the innovations that came from Black scientists, including his neighbors in what once was South Belmar, now Lake Como. They ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish ...