George Mason University Astronomical Observatory

This video provides the viewer with an overview of the George Mason...

Kennedy to select MAHA-aligned researcher to head mental health institute, overruling NIH director

Health secretary wants a leader of “metabolic psychiatry” movement to direct $2.2 billion agency

Multi-Cancer Detection: Panacea or Problem? - Skeptoid

These tests that promise to easily detect cancer with a blood test are fraught with profound accuracy errors.

MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon Phobos

MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon Phobos

AI Steps Into Nuclear Power Plants, and Workers Are Letting It in

AI assistants can help a shrinking specialized workforce maintain aging power plants

Measure An Asteroid’s Shadow With a Small Telescope and Some DIY Gear

Watching space rocks obscure stars is easier than you think

The 80-year nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands

An interview with a prominent member of the Marshallese diaspora delves into the ongoing impact of aboveground US nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific archipelago.

Podcast: A quantum leap for Virginia

President Gregory Washington is joined by TreQ founder and CEO Mandy Birch and director of George Mason's Quantum Science and Engineering Center Patrick Vora to discuss establishing the Virginia...

Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchbacks

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a ‘switchback’ in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within...

Nobel Peace Prize 2026

The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law"

James Watson Suggested Rosalind Franklin Missed the DNA Double Helix. Her Notes Say Otherwise

Franklin's lab notes show she grasped the significance of her DNA images, according to a new essay.

Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought

Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics behind...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to Anne Carson "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary...

Hunting the Pictish Beast - Skeptoid

Did this mysterious carved beast — the most common object on the Pictish standing stones — ever actually live?

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Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Learn about the scientific and social concepts associated with renewable and non-renewable energy and the environment. This presentation from GMU Professor Dr. Harold A. Geller...