President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed federal budget for 2013 today (Feb. 13), which includes $17.7 billion for NASA and requires painful cuts to the agency's Mars exploration plans that are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Anderton, Kansas City-based science reporter and graphic artist. This article is more than 7 years old. Scientific news is a ...

Does it really matter if you have a purpose in life? Science says yes. In fact, people who report a strong sense of purpose experience a 15% lower risk of premature death compared with those who say ...

What if we could use all the technology we have in the private sector to give students a chance to prepare for what they will be doing in the real world? It turns out that wherever there is funding to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Anderton, Kansas City-based science reporter and graphic artist. Science News Media Group, one of the leading publishers in ...

Salary negotiation is tricky business, but this infographic from Salary Tutor offers some insight into the best times for bringing up your request and and other interesting job statistics to remind ...

See the five top reasons to protect your research data. Every year, the amount of research data being generated increases by 30%. Worryingly a massive 80% of scientific data is then lost within two ...

Throughout history, the best data visualizations have served as the public’s window onto a complex world. In a time when everything from the endangerment of the Juggalo to Carrie Bradshaw’s shoe ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The science of biorobotics is used to give robots the graceful movements that evolution has ...

I still remember learning in grade school that men were better at math and science, and women were better at English and art. The teacher (who was a woman), presented the information as a general fact ...

One could argue that the progenitor to infographics (think, data + image) dates back 10,000 years, to a Native American carving of Idaho’s Snake River, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning science ...

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