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The new online production, Plum Landing, teaches kids core science concepts and gets them exploring their worlds through online webisodes, games, an app, videos and hands-on activities.

In the world of sport, we remember a winner. The history of science is often also described in similar terms.

In the early days of independent India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty … of a rich country inhabited by starving people.”

This striking image represents the strength and prevalence of bacterial biofilms — despite our efforts to control them.

Optogenetics, a new field of brain research, was born out of basic research on two unlikely microbes.

Want to know about historical biogeography? Ask Nick Matzke.

Where did the Earth get all its water? What makes up the core of the planet? How did the moon get there? Those are just a few of Earth's biggest unsolved science mysteries.

There is always hope that scientific innovations will help solve global problems. So can scientists help solve the globe’s ultimate problem: eliminate extreme poverty?