“My client is not in a hurry,” architect and sculptor Antoni Gaudí famously responded to someone asking when his last masterpiece, the Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain […]

A group of shops in the Czech city loans customers free folding bikes in exchange for a deposit of about US$16. The program's small size demonstrates that bike-sharing needn't be a big corporate-led endeavor.

This image is an extremely unique solar eclipse, taken from space and revealing the Moon's shadow on the Earth's surface. 

Capturing a smaller space object that temporarily enters Earth's orbit could be a lot easier and cheaper while still providing valuable data, say proponents.

Using data from space telescopes, including the now-sidelined Kepler, astronomers have identified cloud structures on Kepler-7b, a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet that was one of the first discovered.

Scheduled to arrive late next year for testing, the printer will enable astronauts to make replacement parts quickly and easily, saving money as well as stress.

A team of McGill University students are working on providing poorer countries with food products, including flour, made entirely from locally grown insects. Their concept won this year's $1 million Hult Prize.

Why do people become teachers and how do we attract the best teachers to the profession? 

If we want to get serious about improving the quality of education globally, we need to improve the professional status of teachers. In a new study by The Varkey GEMS […]

We should just be eating real food.  If it’s raw or cooked, I’m happy if people just eat real food. 

If curiosity is your curriculum the best way in which that curriculum can be undertaken is for all of your students to cut school and that’s a great idea, but it really won’t work at an institutional level in most universities. 

In essence what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution. 

            The most puzzling thing about the madness of the arch conservatives who have taken America hostage is, how can they be so deep inside their own extremist ideological worldview […]

It's "solemn nonsense" to try to convert nonbelievers to Christianity, said Pope Francis. Or so we think. 

It couldn't be more grimly ironic that science and medicine are being obstructed by a stalemate over payment for health care. Here's a short message to America from the UK […]

Please read poll numbers purporting to explain how people feel about Obamacare with a grain of salt. Most Americans really don't have a clue what it does.

A newly-passed ordinance requires all new home construction to contain the circuitry necessary to allow owners to install their own charging station. The estimated added cost is $200, a mere drop in a bucket full of multimillion-dollar homes.

SAP has developed a machine and corresponding app that, when brought together, creates a customized purchasing experience for the user while giving vendors lots of useful data.

Due to the popularity of SmallSats, industry and government agencies have come aboard the SmallSat bus. However this attention has shed light on a major obstacle: the challenge of getting those SmallSats to space in a responsive and cost-effective manner.

Scheduled to air live November 3 -- on YouTube -- the 90-minute show will feature performances from those who gained fame on the video platform as well as those, such as Eminem, who became famous via more old-fashioned routes.