In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society ...

University of Regina Professor Marc Spooner analyzes the threats to academia’s public mission.

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A course on the contested meanings of the Declaration of Independence has never been more relevant—or more politically ...

KOCO 5 Meteorologist Sabrina Bates explains the chemistry behind the vibrant colors of Fourth of July fireworks.

Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

A new material developed at Penn State defies a fundamental law of physics, opening doors to highly efficient solar cells.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...