To some, science can seem like a cold and impersonal field, all objective data and hard facts. Yet science is a deeply human pursuit, one that can save lives and improve health. Art is a powerful tool in showing that side of science to the public, which is ...

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Nearly 170 years ago, a scientist named Eunice Foote discovered a fundamental truth about the gases that surround us. In her home laboratory in New York, she filled one glass cylinder with carbon dioxide and another with regular air, placed a thermometer ...

Photographer Tim Flach’s new book is unusually personal: it includes images not only of his cat—a regal orange-and-white former barn kitten named Loki—but also of his brain, thanks to MRI scans gathered as he looked at cute images. As the book came ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging rocks could provide clues about the Red Planet's watery past and whether it once harbored extraterrestrial life. When you purchase ...

NASA Science Mission Directorate, Kelsey Young said this is exciting. "We are coming up on the flyby tomorrow. We're getting really, really excited to hear the crew's observations. We've heard some observations,