The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.

Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...

Computer science majors jumped for college students — particularly those in underrepresented groups — who took the subject in ...