Rich Conti came to the Science Museum of Virginia a decade ago with a concern and a goal. His concern: The museum was about “everything — and I struggled with that. I think museums need to ...

This primitive, 85-million-year-old marine reptile was a fierce predator, measuring 12 meters in length. Unlike any known ...

Strother, shown at right with a patient, defied Virginia's law against abortion ... According to the Vienna-based Museum of Contraception and Abortion, when abortion is illegal doctors and women ...

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This isn’t some modest frontier theater—it was one of the most acclaimed ...

Virginia City, Nevada isn’t playing dress-up for tourists—it’s the genuine article, a silver mining boomtown that refuses to fade into the history books. You’ve probably visited places that claim to ...

Visiting Music City with your family? Here are the best things to do in Nashville with kids from live music to outdoor ...

The V&A’s flagship museum in London’s affluent South Kensington district, founded in the 1850s, is one of Britain’s biggest ...

From the legendary Hope Diamond to a rainbow of colorful gemstones, a multigenerational bond between the Winston family and ...

Rachel Carson Middle School in Herndon won the 2018 Virginia Regional Science Bowl, hosted by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Va. The middle ...

Qinqin Liu, Ph.D. ’90, approaches her art from a scientific perspective, drawing on her experience at UC Davis exploring the ...

The Sixth Street Museum District hosted a fun and free event for children Saturday that taught them a little something about science.

Picture a Trojan horse made of pretzels, a lab setup to extract DNA from a strawberry and a starfish sculpture. It’s all part ...