Dr. Wilhelmus (Will) van der Veen of Edison, director of the Science Education Institute at the New Jersey Astronomy Center, has received the 2008 Thomas J. Brennan Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

HONOLULU (AP) — The state can't afford high-technology tax credits currently in place because of low tax revenues, Gov. Linda Lingle said. The credits are meant to help high-technology companies flourish in Hawaii and diversify the state's tourism-dep

The Expanded Very Large Array, part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory , took a giant step toward completion on Aug. 7 with successful testing of advanced digital hardware designed to combine signals from its upgraded radio-telescope antennas to

A new research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth. The Center for Chemistry of the Universe will allow scienti

White Oak Elementary School families recently got a taste—and smell and touch—of what the Discovery Center, a science and technology education "museum without walls," has in store for the future.