We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible ...

A new 3,200-megapixel digital camera is set to change the face of global astronomy. From the AURA Observatory in Chile, it will map the entire Southern Hemisphere in unprecedented detail.