discovery

Gone, but too awesome to forget

Marcia McNutt talks about the power and importance of discovery

The 'chirp' would make a great ringtone

What other fauna lurk undiscovered?

How 'Higgsy' is this particle? More work needs to be done

That's a novemdecillion drugs

This morning, the space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a 747 shuttle-carrier, flew from Kennedy Space Center in Florida up to … Continued

They’re decommissioned, retired, and on their way to their final resting places, but we still care about them. Suresh A. … Continued

"We've wanted to do this for so long," says engineer

We’ve seen footage from rocket-mounted cameras before, but this is a particularly stunning example of the genre: cameras mounted on … Continued