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At the center of our very own Milky Way galaxy, scientists long suspected that there was a supermassive black hole, and they named this black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced "sadge-ay-star")…
In the following article, Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, 15th Director of the National Science Foundation, and Dr. Ellen Ochoa, outgoing chair of the National Science Board, outline why a robust network…
There are infinite pathways into STEM. For many people those pathways are illuminated by the inspirational people, real or fictional, who came before, leaders that we traditionally think of as…
In 2021, researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, began test-piloting the Hurricane Risk Calculator web app. The goal of the app is to provide detailed forecasts of…
Charles Dudley Warner quoted an American writer — possibly his friend, Mark Twain — in an 1897 editorial. "While everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it." Around 125…
Biodiversity is declining faster than at any previous point in human history. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, Red List states that extinction threatens more than 28% of…
Lekelia "Kiki" Jenkins was with her father at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History posing for a picture with a statue. Another family, strangers to Jenkins, watched, approached and…
In fall 2021, the National Science Board and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, or NCSES, made an important change to how they describe and quantify the STEM workforce. In the…