Michigan representative Jim Slezak is lobbying for an amendment to state law that would make abortion illegal.

Today is the 47th anniversary of the day a courageous Soviet submarine officer, Vasili Arkhipov, probably saved the world from nuclear armageddon. On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile […]

A refreshingly non-mainstream media company, INFOWARS.COM, has released a new documentary in the tradition of other cult docs like Loose Change and Zeitgeist. The new film is called Fall of […]

"Obama's War," the smart Frontline episode about Afghanistan and Pakistan, includes a disquieting exchange between a U.S. Marine and two tribal elders in a remote Afghan village. Since this Global […]

Which is tougher, finding the world’s smallest particles with a multi-million dollar supercollider, or surviving the halls of the competitive, male-dominated Harvard Physics Department as a women? Melissa Franklin, who […]

Having blogged twice -- here and here -- about the September massacre by government forces in the west African nation of Guinea, I hope we're all keeping an eye on […]

Drug-war dispatches out of Mexico, Pakistan's seeming inability to control its tribal areas, and Jon Lee Anderson's recent reporting on the largely lawless swaths of Rio de Janeiro lodged a […]

A conversation with the Harvard Professor of Physics.

Physicist Melissa Franklin would love to have a dream dinner with Samuel Beckett or Richard Feynman, but she’s afraid she’d get nervous and make a fool of herself.

Physicist Melissa Franklin recommends you avoid trying to control where your ideas take you—instead, let them do their own thing.

Empirical scientists won’t stop making fun of popular science icons like Brian Greene, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love them.

Melissa Franklin stays up at night concerned mainly about how her son is doing in Little League; though she worries about bigger problems, they aren’t tangible enough to make her […]

Why is a group of brilliant scientists spending millions to find the smallest particles in the universe? As it turns out, they will be able to teach us a lot […]

Will the new Large Hadron Collider create an earth-consuming black hole? Highly unlikely, says the Harvard physicist, but if it did, "it wouldn’t be so bad."

Supercolliders are expensive to build and maintain, slow to get going, become obsolete as soon as a new one is built, and are shooting for discoveries that even physicists are […]

Melissa Franklin had her share of challenges n the male-dominated world of physics: colleagues made passes at her, they asked her not talk, and were generally "less evolved socially." She […]

Melissa Franklin never had any intention of becoming one of the world’s leading particle physicists. She says went into the field because "she wasn’t smart enough" to do anything else, […]

Andy Dunn was sick of the way that his pants fit. So he and a friend from Stanford Business School started an online pants company called Bonobos. They make reasonably […]

Extracts from Sarah Palin’s ghost writer’s diary detailing her dealings with the former governor have been published in Salon.

Are the seven seconds it takes to complete the average Grand Prix pit stop the longest seconds in sport?