The science fiction in games and other entertainment used to be very different from real-life technology. Sci-fi creators made time machines and flying cars. But increasingly, we see the creative ...

I have long said that science fiction on television, even when it’s bad, can serve as inspiration for a budding scientist. Heck, I watched some pretty phenomenally bad scifi TV and movies and a kid, ...

Eric Choi's "Just Like Being There" is available for sale now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Eric Choi is a long-running ...

BEAVERTON, Oregon — Vernier Science Education has named the 10 recipients of its inaugural Vernier Science Education Inspiration Grants. These STEM educators will each receive $1,000 in Vernier ...

We’re big fans of science humor here at Surprising Science HQ. Some of the funniest, most innovative new comics have a science angle, whether it’s dinosaur spokescharacters, grad students toiling in a ...

BURNABY, British Columbia, Feb. 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National Engineering and Geoscience Month kicks off on March 1, 2018. Take part in the excitement as engineers and geoscientists host ...

How much of science is inspiration versus perspiration? Obviously, that creative spark, that new insight, that aha! moment is often crucial to producing new ideas and advancing knowledge. But, as both ...

The great science minds of history have provided inspirational quotes on their findings, philosophy, and understanding of the world around us. These quotes have inspired generations of young explorers ...

My Ph.D. adviser is pretty great. His name is Brian Nosek, and I think he’s done more than most to make science more reliable. Over the last six years, he’s founded and expanded the Center for Open ...

NEW YORK — In our first public event, Space.com featured the art of mathematician and cosmologist Ed Belbruno in a gallery showing at New York's Café Minerva — and, next door, hosted a panel ...

A total of 10 grantees will receive hands-on technology and accompanying professional development to help them foster STEM literacy with students "Educators across the country are doing extraordinary ...

In science, ideas can come from anywhere. Still, Eicke Latz was surprised to get an email in 2010 from a stranger proposing an experiment. Dr. Latz and other researchers had just published a study in ...