The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...

Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...

When the ants go marching two by two, pay attention to what they are doing. Scientists are. And they are discovering clever ways to improve cyber security just by mimicking the behavior of ants. The foraging insects use something called swarm intelligence to efficiently locate and gather food. Computer...

Just as we have to monitor our own health, now we have to be more aware of our computer’s health. While high cholesterol and blood pressure aren’t issues for our machines, keeping them free of viruses and worms are. A new piece of malware, known as the Conficker worm, that has been worming...

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon.

Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users. Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...

Watch the video Smart Phones and Science: Spot the Weed. Scientists at the University of California are developing a way for the public to contribute data to research projects using a ubiquitous sensing device – the smart phone. This is a great way to collect data in weeks that would otherwise...

For 35 years, the Rubik’s Cube has been puzzling people and teaching science. Starting with its inventor, Erno Rubik, first used his “magic cube” to demonstrate three-dimensional design to his architecture students. Now mathematicians across the world are employing the brightly-colored...

No one wants to hear that scientific journals fall prey to unscrupulous scientists who manufacture data or worse whole papers. And sometimes they even are the victims of hoaxes–even some conducted in the name of science. Philip Davis and Kent Anderson pulled a fast one on an open access journal...

Summer is no time for idle minds. About 70 Georgia girls are getting a crash course in crime scene investigation, astronomy, dinosaurs and chemistry, neuroscience, computer science and mathematics. The goal of the Women in the Sciences summer camp is to interest young women in pursuing careers in science. Other...