Science

There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...

At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...

On October 13 at 9:24 pm, Orbital Sciences will launch from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, sending 2,400 kilos of supplies ...

First, evidence has been discovered supporting a subsurface salt-water ocean at Pluto! It would have the right mass to account for how Pl ...

Last Saturday Rosetta completed its final orbit and began its direct descent to the comet’s surface. It should impact on Friday in a re ...

First, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the Autumnal equinox, which is this Thursday at 10:21am. Next stops? Halloween, th ...

Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...

The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...

Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...

Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...

Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...

In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

This Friday’s full moon is both the Harvest Moon and a penumbral eclipse. Penumbral means that the moon passes through the outer sh ...