Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Caption (a) The moment of inertia is smaller for prolate shapes and larger for oblate shapes. (b) Nuclei combine several such shapes. (c) A snapshot of the neon-20 nucleus from simulations. Studying ...

Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College today announced $9.5 million in philanthropic grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF), Rice alumni John and Ann Doerr and the William ...

In an interesting twist in the college textbook market, John Wiley this week announced a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax College, an initiative to provide free, open textbooks. Under ...

OpenStax College will launch a pilot for its two new biology textbooks--for majors and nonmajors--this fall. Rice University-based OpenStax College uses philanthropic support to produce textbooks with ...