Modern Science

The Mount Wilson Observatory is home to the 100-inch (2.5m) Hooker telescope, one of the most historical telescopes in the era of modern ast...

During WWII, two German Nobel Prize laureates (in physics) escaped to Denmark. When it too was taken over, their medals were chemically dis...

This image is truncated on the right, please click on it to see the full version! With the power of science we can now calculate this! At l...

Reposted in its entirety from an AAS email. The AAS has drafted a statement on professional ethics on June 7, 2009 (see below). AAS members ...

One thing that keeps flitting into my head when we talk about a human mission to Mars, is the ethics of it. Right now we don't have the...

I'm not a big fan of politics, but part of the story about North Korea's second nuclear bomb test caught my eye. North Korea announ...

A California high school history teacher has been found guilty of violating the First Amendment by calling a student's comments about cr...