Science

Professor Duchess Harris, Chair of the American Studies department at Macalester College and alumna of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF), shares the story of her grandmother Miriam Mann, one of NASA's earliest "hidden figures."

The study in mice found that a brain region called the lateral vestibular nucleus, or LVN, accomplishes this feat by moving muscles in a two-step, kneejerk response that first widens the animal's center of gravity, and then strengthens and...

The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will move forward with mapping the entire sky following a $16 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla announced Monday that they may have found a compound essential to the formation of life on earth.