WELCOME BACK. WPBF IS A PROUD PARTNER OF THE SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM, AND THIS YEAR, THE ENGINEERING COMPETITION IS BACK FOR ITS 39TH YEAR. TO TELL US ALL ABOUT IT IS THE CENTER’S DIRECTOR OF ...

A decade ago, Elizabeth Thomas was a student in a health science class taught by Tad Cummins. The next year, Elizabeth and her teacher would run away together, only to later be discovered in a cabin ...

The Tahoe Discovery Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe campus provides collaborative space for interdisciplinary research and innovation ...

When wolves are on the hunt, a kill rarely goes unnoticed for long. In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the ...

A program to which users attribute human characteristics can manipulate them much more easily.” –Andrzej Porębski, MD ...

Computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life. In recent years, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly. A new National Academies ...

Author of The Flow Habit reveals a practical framework for accessing flow based on decades of scientific study These ...

Advances in network science, artificial intelligence, and clinician networks may shift medical decisions from individual doctors to groups—and even AI models—at scale.

Families in northern Nevada will have the chance to explore science up close this weekend as the Sci-Venture Community Science Fair returns to The Discovery Museum in Reno. The fair takes place ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

For the first time, scientists have observed how tiny metal "thorns" called dendrites sprout inside lithium-ion batteries, which can cause the batteries to short-circuit. Their findings, published Mar ...

Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and ...