Cool Science: Paper airplanes, insect wings and the future of tiny drones

There are infinite pathways into STEM.

In 2021, researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, began test-piloting the Hurricane Risk Calculator web app.

Charles Dudley Warner quoted an American writer — possibly his friend, Mark Twain — in an 1897 editorial.

Biodiversity is declining faster than at any previous point in human history.

Lekelia "Kiki" Jenkins was with her father at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History posing for a picture with a statue.

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 2018, accountant and astronomy buff Jorg Schumann was sifting through publicly available astral images of the cosmos and noticed an unusual pair of fast-moving objects.

Some of our team members took the opportunity to have a little fun with some of the animals that are the focus of NSF-supported research.

The phrase "data-driven" is a modern cliché. It's generally used to characterize decisions or strategies as being based on some sort of objective data.

U.S. National Science Foundation pioneer Cora Marrett answers every new opportunity, no matter how groundbreaking, with a simple question: Why not?…