News

Discover how CPL’s ongoing free ScienceConnections series inspires hands-on STEAM learning for kids through creative programs ...
If you love space, odds are you’ve admired the work of Bill Ingalls.He has been NASA’s senior contract photographer for 30 years, a job that has taken him across the world—but not yet beyond ...
These are the best model rockets ahead of Amazon Prime Day, featuring NASA and Blue Origin, as well as STEM rockets, all ...
Going to the beach is good for your brain, according to science Visiting the coast can help you relieve stress and get more active—and it may even change the way you cope with pain.
Though the Star Wars saga promises to transport us long, long, ago to a galaxy far, far away, for hordes of scientists and engineers, the science-fiction film series’s greatest contribution is ...
Why we explore Mars—and what decades of missions have revealed. In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us. Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars ...
Here’s what lead, arsenic, cadmium, and other contaminants in tampons might mean for your health—and other common ways you might not know you’re being exposed.
If you have to go outside on a dangerously hot day, experts say there are things you can do to make it more bearable—from choosing your outfit wisely to creating your own shade.
Here’s what the science says. Research is finally catching up to the idea that meditation—which has been practiced for millennia—also provides many health benefits, including managing stress ...
Do masks really harm kids? Here's what the science says. As more states drop mask mandates, experts explain why keeping them on in schools is still a smart move for families and teachers.
Moons and other matter. More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system. Known as natural satellites, they orbit planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and other debris.