16 facts across the U.S.
The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona hosts the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments in t…
The world's first nuclear power plant to generate usable electricity was built not in a major research city, but in the…
Illinois produces more nuclear power than any other state in the United States. The state operates 11 nuclear reactors a…
The Indiana Dunes along the southern shore of Lake Michigan have been described as the birthplace of ecology. Starting i…
The world's first electronic digital computer was developed not at MIT or Bell Labs, but in a basement at Iowa State Uni…
Southwestern Kansas sits atop the Hugoton Natural Gas Field, one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, which a…
Maryland is home to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the most visited aquarium in the United States, and also to the…
MIT, founded in Boston in 1861 and relocated to Cambridge in 1916, has been affiliated with 97 Nobel Prize winners, more…
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota has been ranked the top hospital in the United States more times than any other…
Area 51, officially known as the Nevada Test and Training Range, is a classified U.S. Air Force facility located on the…
The Trinity Site in the Jornada del Muerto desert of southern New Mexico is where the world's first nuclear weapon was d…
New Mexico has more PhDs per capita than any other state in the United States, a distinction driven largely by the conce…
Before 1904, roughly one in every four trees in the eastern United States was an American chestnut — an estimated four b…
The Bakken Formation, a rock unit buried roughly two miles beneath the surface of North Dakota and parts of Montana, is…
The first ambulance service in the United States was established at Commercial Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865, des…
Texas produces more wind energy than any other state in the United States and more than most countries in the world. The…