If you’re like me, you are feeling pretty bummed today about not getting a ticket to see Bill Nye. The fact that only a limited number of students were able to attend is a disservice to the University’s...

Why do so many people begin their essays and papers by asking a question? It is a tired, overused construction and relatively uncreative as far as opening sentences go. It could be the memory of a ninth...

Dark matter is more than just a mythical fuel source in the popular, animated comedy “Futurama." It is potentially a substantial part of the universe. Three University of Alabama physicists are taking...

More than two-dozen teachers from across the Southeast recently attended a camp held at the University of Alabama to learn new ways of expanding their students’ interest in science. The camp was held...

A group of researchers, including the University of Alabama’s own Guy and Kimberlee Caldwell, recently released new findings that may link to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a press release....

I went to a high school where I learned more about the Bible than I did about math, and my tenth grade biology teacher refused to teach evolution because, well, people didn’t come from monkeys. They...

In the backbone of atheism, what they say disproves Christianity. But although science has done many great things for this world, it holds no legitimacy when it comes to proving or disproving how we were...

A faculty member at the University has partnered with researchers in Finland and Russia to study a recently discovered phenomenon called dark energy. Gene Byrd, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy,...