Kate Becker

Kate Becker: Quest continues for single-pole magnets

Watch streaming video of the NOVA scienceNOW segment on earthquakes in the Midwest, view a seismic image and try to locate a frightening new fault just discovered beneath the Mississippi River, ask Geophysicist ...

Becker: Null results: Still waiting for waves to prove General Relativity

Right after graduation, my high school hosted something they called a Lock-In. De-capped and de-gowned, we graduates handed our bouquets and diplomas off to our parents and flocked to the high school gym, where we were Locked In until morning.

Physics involves too many fragile instruments. Biology involves living, breathing, squirming things. And chemistry -- well, that's just a toxic, explosive disaster waiting to happen.

My new cello teacher lives in a fourth-floor walkup.

What in the world is happening on Enceladus? Back in 2005, the Cassini spacecraft revealed that this 300-mile wide moon -- one of Saturn's 50-plus companions -- was spouting plumes of water vapor and ice. ...

Buttonhole cameras. Invisible ink. Hidden microphones. Gravitational microlensing. What do these things have in common? They’re all tools for spying.

Scientists have found the missing link! It’s not what you’re thinking.

Last week, NASA announced a truly momentous milestone: the first tweet from space.

It's the last chapter in an epic long-distance romance: The final rendezvous between two aging companions, each grasping the last bright threads of their golden years. Kind of like 'Cocoon,' but without the pool and the aliens.

I miss the Olympics. For two weeks, the world had the peculiar pleasure of watching anatomically improbable athletes perform physically implausible tasks. And while the Olympians soared, sprinted and swam, ...

A math professor once told me that the best mathematicians are also the laziest.