Aerospace engineering is a challenge for anyone—and as a first-generation college student, Maria faced additional hurdles. With strength, hard work and the support of community, Maria persevered. Now, ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

Photon- and proton-based radiation therapy conferred comparable health-related quality of life for people with breast cancer, ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

CHEERS TO THE CHEERSERS! It’s probably not fair but I absolutely judge how well we are doing as Spokanites by the ratio of Cheers to Jeers each week. These days there are plenty of things to Jeer but ...

It was summer, when all kids seem a bit more tired, and lots of bugs were going on in the crèche, so it didn’t really alarm ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

“Curious people,” according to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, “had the right to exhibit a controlled disrespect ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...