Ethan Philbrick performs one of the first pieces of music ever written for solo cello, by J.S. Bach.

The former Senate Majority Leader says whatever system we choose, whether it is Obamacare, Clintoncare or Nixoncare, has a relatively small impact on how long we live as compared to behavior and genetics.

As tuition costs continue to skyrocket, parents and students are demanding answers to this question: what am I getting as the return on my $50 thousand annual investment that is college tuition today? 

In his book Blind Spots, Professor Max Bazerman of Harvard Business School argues that the Challenger fiasco exploited inconsistencies in the decision-making mechanisms of the brain. 

A new study has deepened the mystery of dark matter, that evasive substance that keeps entire galaxies together. The standard cosmological model may be wrong as a result. 

The dominant idea that the world's oil supplies are a finite and known quantity is a dangerous lie that creates subsidies to protect consumers while climate change rages on. 

While countries in North America and Europe suffer through a downturn that has people questioning the very foundations of their economies, something far more positive is happening in South America. […]

It may be tempting to think that if you want to be innovative, your office has to “have all these weird things going on." Not so, says Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. The real power comes from shaking things up.

-- Guest post by Luis Hestres, American University doctoral student. Ever since the financial crisis hit the U.S. in late 2008, many political commentators (mostly on the Left) have wondered […]

The world's first spaceport was officially inaugurated in New Mexico last week. It will be used primarily by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to carry tourists into sub-orbital space. 

Experts and dreamers gathered recently to discuss the possibility of sending humans far into deep space, possibly to Alpha Centauri, the star nearest our own Sun. 

Climate change poses 'an immediate, growing and grave threat' to health and security around the world, said doctors, academics and military experts at a conference in London.

Once Facebook flips the switch on the official public launch of its all-new Timeline feature, nearly any action that you take will become instantly sharable online to your friends as […]

My previous post, "The Blinding Fog of Religious Moderation", drew some criticism from people who felt that I was unjustly lumping moderate believers together with fundamentalists. So, in this post, […]

With the global financial crisis ongoing, the concept of "short-termism" has emerged as one underlying explanation for our current woes. As the argument goes, the increasing emphasis on quarterly reports […]

Larry Summers argues "I think we have substantially more problems with inadequate accountability in the United States than we have with excessive myopia in the United States."

Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it.

Dr. Michio Kaku explains one theory behind déjà vu and asks, "Is it ever possible on any scale to perhaps flip between different universes?"

Larry Summers, Eric Schmidt, Skip Gates, Dean Kamen, Rahm Emanuel, Craig Venter and many other thought-leaders and innovators convened on Nantucket from September 30 to October 2, 2011. Those are […]

Eric Schmidt appeared on a panel called "Taking the Long View – Building an Economic Foundation for the Future" at the Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas centered around the […]