Science

Mission Control opens to public 50 years after moon landing

NASA's Johnson Space Center has recreated its Apollo-era Mission Control to evoke 1969. The exhibit, meticulously restored down to the tan carpeting and gray-green wallpaper, opens to the public June 28 in Houston.

NASA to open moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions

Moon rocks hold keys to the universe. Scientists have studied them to determine the age of the surfaces of Mars and Mercury, and established that Jupiter likely formed closer to the sun and later migrated outward.

Beyond Schrödinger’s cat: A serious comic about quantum physics

Scientists at Yale University have found that quantum jumps are not as instantaneous or as unpredictable as scientists previously thought.

Space poll: Americans prefer averting asteroids over Mars missions

It's been 50 years since the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. But today many Americans have a different idea of what the space program should be focused on – and it might not include a trip to Mars.

Extraction: DNA from strawberries

The ability to study DNA revolutionized the field of biology. But to study it, scientists first have to extract DNA molecules from the rest of an organism. 

Whom does your DNA belong to? Hint, it’s not just you.

Home DNA test kits are flying off the shelves allowing people to analyze their own genome and those of their relatives. But is that a good thing?

GMO could bring back the American chestnut. But should it?

A project at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry to restore the American chestnut tree is generating both promise and protest.

New York Harbor: a no-go zone or an aquatic world?

How a new human species challenges textbook histories

A paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday describes Homo luzonensis, a new human species that lived in the Philippines.