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When COVID-19 first emerged, Linsey Marr suspected right away it spread through the air. Time has proved this aerosols engineer right. Now she's being honored with a MacArthur "genius grant."

Desks at least six feet apart, kids arriving at different times, eating lunch in the classrooms — the CDC has updated guidelines for re-opening public places, including schools.

Researchers need your help to unlock the secrets of whale songs. A new online experiment is recruiting citizen scientists to study killer and pilot whale calls from around the world.

B-360, a nonprofit, uses dirt bikes to teach elementary and high school students math and science. "Just the excitement and the adrenaline. You can learn a lot from a bike," one participant says.

There's a move in Congress to name a science laureate. Astronomer Mike Brown hopes that person would do much more than visit schools to encourage kids to consider careers in science. He'd like to see a laureate reach out to the public in all sorts of ways.

A Pew Research Center study shows that the two groups disagree most strongly on the safety of GM foods, the use of animals in research, climate change and human evolution.

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

Warren Buffett's son, Howard, is using his foundation, stocked with $2 billion of his father's money, to address hunger in the U.S., as well as globally. He's trying to use his farming experience to help farmers be more productive and to get more food into the hands of those who need it most.

The rolling NASA laboratory called Curiosity kicked off what's expected to be a two-year mission on the Red Planet with a tricky automated landing in a Martian crater.

In school, we're taught we should trust science because the scientific method leads to measurable results and hard facts. But Naomi Oreskes says the process of inquiry doesn't end there.