The Smithsonian Science Education Center is Transforming K-12 Education through Science, in collaboration with communities ...

Scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found in laboratory experiments that several commonly used pesticides are just as toxic or even more toxic to the mitochondria of cells than the ...

The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and ...

explosion and the shattering glass don’t distress her. She simply clicks her computer mouse a few times and starts over. Ms. Ellison’s laboratory section relies on computer simulations, rather than on ...

Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes.