Students hunch over microscopes, adjusting knobs and squinting until an image comes into view, one of the dazzling DNA lines of fruit flies. For the very first time, Academy is offering a hands-on, “real...

On November 23, 2021, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft launched by NASA will target Dimorphos: a moonlet orbiting asteroid Didymos. Didymos and Dimorphos, known as a non-threatening...

April 2020 saw the highest levels of unemployment in the US since before WWII. Millions of Americans were jobless, and many, unable to pay rent, were evicted. For a large number of Americans, the pandemic...

Out of control fires, unprecedented hurricanes, and extended drought remind us that amidst the pandemic, the world's climate is also in crisis. New Mexico is a prime example of climate change and its...

Science faculty member Karen Temple Beamish recently traveled to Alaska with a team of researchers to study the effects of global warming on the tundra. She traveled as part of the PolarTREC PolarConnect...

What if there were no more genetic disorders? For years, people have pondered whether it is possible to create a perfectly healthy human, free from any defects. Scientists may have found a way to begin...