Although their numbers are few, women luthiers are making their mark and providing skilled work in Israel. Luthiers are craftspeople skilled in making string instruments – guitars, violins, violas, ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling ...

NOT AT NASA, NOT AT A SECRET BASE SOMEWHERE, BUT ON THE NINTH FAIRWAY, ON A GOLF COURSE IN AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE ROBERT GODDARD LAUNCHED THE FIRST LIQUID FUELED ROCKET HE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS ...

University of Louisville has decided to permanently close its planetarium, a campus facility that has not been used since the ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in microscopic spaces.

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

Bangladesh has growing academic interest in astrophysics but lacks the infrastructure for observational research ...

Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily during economic turning points—financial crises, pandemics, and geopolitical ...

Researchers created a technique to reduce uncertainty in cosmic birefringence measurements, resolving a key phase ambiguity and improving future studies of fundamental physics.

Grant supports 37 postdoctoral researchers across three university schools. Rutgers University-New Brunswick has received a $1.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foun ...

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A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...