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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Hailed as Science's 2022 Breakthrough of the Year

Medicine & Technology Dec 19, 2022

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope of NASA was undoubtedly the star this year from its flawless launch to the early images that took everyone's breath away. Check out its achievements in this article.

When It Comes to Controversy, Science and the American Public Disagree

Jan 30, 2015

While most of the general public may not want to spend their life crunching numbers or mixing chemicals in a lab, often science breaches the great divide. While there may be a few points of contention, the good news at least is that most Americans believe that science and scientists are invaluable resources for information. In fact in a new public opinion poll released yesterday by the Pew Research Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 79 percent of those interviewed said that they believed in the important nature of science. But when it came to controversial topics like climate change and GMOs, the stats and the public opinion were not nearly as generous.