NASA has a meatball and a worm. The meatball—a sphere of stars, a red chevron, and a comet orbiting the agency’s acronym—came first, in 1959, and was attached to spacesuits and capsules. It was ...

Slime time: A velvet worm producing slime. (Courtesy: Poulhazan A et al. 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06798 The ...

A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design. The findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, conserved across species from ...

Petsworth Elementary School recently received a grant through the Virginia Power Partnership to fund a project called “Movers and Shakers, Little Earth Makers.” Fifth grade students, under the ...