How do you turn a liability into an asset? Ed Conard, a former colleague of Mitt Romney's at Bain Capital, says Romney's history with the company should be an asset because Romney is an "outstanding business executive" who always took the longview. 

If adults want to deny evolution, that’s fine. Sure. Whatever. But those adults better not make their kids follow in step because we as society need them to be better.

Many municipal problems plague the newly founded government of Egypt, but the country's trash problem may have a simple fix that has been used in the past: pigs.

Americans have long held the greatest share of the number of college graduates but China and India are well on their way towards overtaking the U.S.

While U.S. and European officials try to gain leverage with China to uphold U.N. weapon sanctions, Chinese weapons continue to fuel African conflicts.

The top videos of summer, '12, featuring experts such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr. Michio Kaku, Slavoj Zizek, Jaron Lanier and many others. 

Jobless with few prospects, many in Spain are looking at the invented currencies of time banks to help pay for goods and services with hours of labor.

Leading water scientists look  for solutions to water and food shortages. A universal move towards vegetarian diets may help feed the projected 9 billion world population of 2050.

Geography was my favourite subject in school; physics the one I disliked the most. If only I’d known about this Map of Physics!   This spatial representation of the subject, dating […]

Only two authenticated images of Emily Dickinson exist: one a painting of her (and her siblings) as a child, the other an iconic photograph of her as a teenager. In […]

With this unexpected lull in the Republican convention schedule, I started wondering—are the Democrats ready for 2016? I know it sounds a little premature to be wondering about four years […]

Self-awareness has been billed as the ultimate quality that separates humans from machines, but robots are edging closer to us, learning about themselves through observation.

Using a two-stage approach that builds on the work of William James, Harvard astrophysicist Robert Doyle says freedom is compatible with even highly determined physical systems. 

An unnamed 16-year old in the Dominican Republic has died from leukaemia complications. The “complications” were as a result of a “dilemma”: the girl was pregnant and chemotherapy, which she […]

Testing the clinical benefits of exercise is no small task. While placebos can be given in drug trials, there is no such equivalent for physical activity. A new study has raised controversy over its methods. 

Despite the promise of budding medical technologies, which could extend the human life span significantly, people are generally wary of living much longer and firmly reject immortality. 

Medical engineers have successfully lined surgical stitches with silicon sensors that can detect infections and apply heat to wounds, a known method of shortening recovery time. 

Were the 20-year trend in declining circumcision rates to continue, reaching levels currently seen in Europe, Johns Hopkins physicians estimate substantial rises in health care spending. 

By uploading medical journals, clinical guidelines and patient records into Watson's "brain," physicians are working closely with IBM to usher in the next generation of computer-assisted medicine. 

The health of the human body partially depends on the bacteria living in every crevice of skin and organ. Scientists believe altering their genetic makeup may help fight genetic diseases.