Not all of this curiosity should be treated as finite fuel to get our boat from point A to point B. It’s OK to ride the waves, look at the reefs, and sometimes submerge ourselves in the water (make an elaborate felt LaGuardia High School costume).

The purpose of education is to teach you the necessity of thinking for yourself, the necessity of asking critical questions of yourself and of others and how to find perceptive and penetrating questions to ask.

Mars Rover Curiosity plans to head east in order to gather its first measurements, and then it will go to Mount Sharp to map out Mars’ geological history.

The Washington University professor who spent several years as deputy principal coordinator for the Mars rover Opportunity was recently selected to contribute to a new rover mission.

Perched on the rim of an ancient 22,000 meter-wide crater, the Mars rover Opportunity has reached a new type of rock that scientists believe may contain evidence that the planet was once capable of sustaining life. Washington University professor Raymond E. Arvidson is the mission’s deputy principal coordinator.