Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” was controversial in the 1970s. The band’s song “Carry On Wayward Son” received pushback for the same reason as “Dust in the Wind.” “Dust in the Wind” and “Carry On Wayward ...

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning and the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now ...

If you’ve ever driven into the sunset with a dirty windshield or taken a drive after a snowstorm, your windshield caked with salt, you can probably relate to one of astronomers’ ongoing frustrations: ...

In 1997, while a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Kris Pister proposed a project to deliver sensing, computing and networking in a millimeter-sized package. The project, called ...