The snow has melted, flowers are beginning to bloom, and students and faculty are springing into science. The Kennedy College of Sciences hosted its fourth annual “Spring into Science: A Celebration ...

In generations past, the arrival of spring meant not just warming days, chirping birds and frolicking baby animals, but also an energy-intensive project for homemakers: spring cleaning. After a winter ...

We’re ready for spring! This is the time of year when we enjoy spending homeschool days outdoors — reading in the clubhouse, math on the patio, gardening and observing nature. A science notebook is a ...

Author and biologist Thor Hanson is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Switzer Environmental Fellow and winner of the John Burroughs Medal. His books include Buzz, The Triumph of Seeds, Feathers and The ...

This article has been updated for the start of this year's spring. Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter. With the recent vernal equinox, the Northern ...

During a normal May, Jill Anderson would be loading a U-Haul with supplies, saying goodbye to her family, and driving west from her home in Athens, Georgia, to an abandoned silver mining town high in ...

It may not feel like it in the chilly United States, but it's the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially begins at 12:57 p.m. ET on March 20—a precise and fixed point in ...

Spring is here, and you might want to make the most of it. The season of flowers and showers actually gets shorter every year by about 30 seconds to a minute, due to astronomical quirks, researchers ...

Spring officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 with the vernal equinox as the entire world experiences an equal amount of daylight and darkness. For ease of recordkeeping, ...

Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation by Terri Favro (Feb. 6, hardcover, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-5107-2310-8) offers new perspective on how people’s relationships with ...