A philosophy professor looks at the learning styles of different creatures to gain insight into curiosity among human beings.

As commercial spaceflight companies lower the cost of reaching space, nations can launch more missions. But while astronauts are great for whipping up enthusiasm, is a manned mission worth the cost?

“All systems go!” I said cautiously with a long sigh of relief. I had approved plans for the first soil analysis that would give humankind clues to the past and future habitability of Mars. One small word…

NASA has revealed that a whiff of methane has been detected twice in the last couple of years at the Martian surface by the Curiosity Rover. The source of the methane is uncertain. It is not even clear…

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine made a discovery that helped create the COVID-19 vaccines. They couldn’t have anticipated the tremendous impact of their findings.

Determining whether or not life exists on another planet is an extraordinarily complicated – and expensive – scientific endeavor.

As many as two-thirds of couples do it.

An electrical engineer explains how smoke detectors work, and how to reduce the chances of a false positive.

A professor of wireless communications explains the origins of cellular networks and how they evolved into today’s 5G networks.

Parthenogenesis, a form of reproduction in which an egg develops into an embryo without being fertilized by sperm, might be more common than you realized.