Scientific American

Carolyn Beatrice Parker’s Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later

Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics, and she worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical part of the Manhattan Project tasked with ...
Analytics Insight

Best Data Science Projects for Beginners in 2026

Overview: Beginner projects focus on real datasets to build core skills such as data cleaning, exploration, and basic ...
Scientific American

Andy Weir on Ryan Gosling, alien contact and the wild science of Project Hail Mary

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...
Rolling Stone

‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Is a Blockbuster Machine. But He Only Cares About the Science

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...
The Economist

The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...
Sacramento State University

Senior Project Showcase

Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Join us for the Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase, where graduating seniors from Civil Engineering, Computer ...