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Orlando, FL­­–based PureCycle Technologies has partnered with EXPLR Media to educate the younger generation about plastic recycling with an episode of EXPLR’s new Everyday Science Stuff TV series.

I am teaching physical science this semester. It appears that I will be teaching it again this summer. Ideally, I would like to switch to something like Physics and Everyday Thinking for large lecture ...

Tuesday is the centennial of the grossest fraud of 20th-century science: Piltdown man. It is a case worth remembering. On Dec. 18, 1912, amateur geologist Charles Dawson presented to the Geological ...

Science writing comes in many varieties. When writing for a blog, you usually have freedom to go as deep into a topic as you feel necessary. There are hardly ever word count limits. On top of that, ...

Star crossed" doesn't begin to describe Arthur Davidsen's space odyssey. His pride and joy -- the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) -- moved into the on-deck circle at Cape Canaveral in late 1985, ...