The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization promoting and managing research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, will ...

Observational studies, rather than randomized control trial counterparts, are most likely to receive coverage in major news outlets, according to research in PLOS One. Observational studies more often ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its new Earth Observation Science Strategy, Earth Science in Action for Tomorrow's World. Responding to the escalating threats from climate change, ...

Mars rover Curiosity is doing it. School children strolling through the woods with binoculars are doing it. Charles Darwin was doing it. Observing the natural world around them was how the early ...

The potato industry recently scored a big victory, in what sounds at first like a familiar story of Big Ag winning out over public health. Eight years ago, over allegations of insufficient nutritional ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Meteorology is an observational science, meaning the forecasts become more accurate with more data and faster computing power. Still, data is only one piece of the ...

THE aim of science is to discover the “laws of Nature,” and in its truest, though narrowest, sense it is the pursuit of this knowledge for its own sake, irrespective of any practical use to which it ...