While many of us remain glued to our televisions as we watch team after team get eliminated from the World Cup, those who are in Brazil for the games have […]

The “Lean In” movement that Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg founded with her book of the same name continued a conversation psychologist Matina Horner started 46 years ago. In Horner’s famous study, […]

WASHINGTON, DC – There are two leading views about the world’s financial system. The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system […]

NEW HAVEN – In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of […]

The quantum nature of the Universe ruins everything. “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” -Werner Heisenberg When you think about the […]

Near the constellation Coma Berenices, some 63 million light-years away, is NGC 4651, a spiral galaxy about the size of our Milky Way. Extending 100 thousand light-years past its galactic […]

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." - Dean Acheson

"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." - Jules Henri Poincare

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." - John F. Kennedy

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud

In the midst of Soccermania Grips America! you may not have heard about that hugely important ruling for the health of the planet, a recent decision by a federal judge […]

"One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries," said the scientist leading current research efforts.

"Given the heat," said Miller, "people smelled, of course, but some smelled a lot worse than others."

Laura Rittenhouse is a 21st century Orwell, who scours shareholder letters for "cliches, weasel words, jargon, hyperbole, nonsensical statements, and overused words."]

On his blog, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains how if you accept quantum mechanics, it is not difficult to accept the multiple universes hypothesis.

Los Angeles dermatologist Eric Finzi has published two studies suggesting that Botox injections can relieve symptoms of depression by keeping the face from expressing sorrowful or painful emotions.

Thanks to a NASA grant, the University of Southern California's Dr. Behrok Khoshnevis is designing robotic machines that could build landing pads, hangars, and roads out of the Martian soil.

And what are the odds that it’s out there? “Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain […]

It can be difficult to hear about the areas where we need to improve. Even if someone is skilled at giving feedback, listening to what we could be doing better […]