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Prodigy Taylor Wilson decided to tackle the problem of nuclear fusion technology, which he says is stuck in the 1950s.
Harnessing relativity, technology can even give us the time to live.
The selfie has emerged as one of the defining modes of self-expression of the smartphone era. Sometimes, it seems like half of all photos uploaded to Facebook or Instagram each […]
Isn't this the craziest, twistiest international borderline you've ever seen? Unless you've studied the hyper-enclaved border zone of Cooch Behar [1], between India and Bangladesh, it probably is. But why […]
Imagine if no one knows what your illness is, or if it is mistreated by the medical community. How much worse is it, when treatment is possible, but it is prevented or delayed by ignorance.
Like many doting parents, I post about my son on Facebook, enjoying the few years I have left before he gets veto power. I don't put up anything negative or […]
“What we’re seeing here, this guy is the Leonardo da Vinci—the Albert Einstein—of tennis.”
When Jaleesa Martin brought her seven-month-old child, Messiah, to the Cocke County Chancery Court in August, she was waging a battle with her son’s father for rights to his last […]
A site called Not All Like That (NALT) has been launched for Christians who support LGBT civil rights, as a companion project to Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign that launched in 2010. […]
As much as I would like to argue that fathers' biological commitment to pregnancy is very little, they do go through some changes.
The same color illusion demonstrates how human observations in science can be inaccurate.
I have found people that have overcome adversity and overcome the setbacks quickly are the ones that succeed in the long term.
Kirobo, a robot whose name is derived from the Japanese words for "hope" and "robot," has made its first appearance at the International Space Station.
Many successful networks (biological or non-biological) experience breakpoints—instances in which more growth is impossible. Consider the story of 29 reindeer on St. Matthew Island, a narrow piece of land located […]
Well, it depends on what you mean by science. There was a panel at the meeting of the American Political Science Association on the (alleged?) outrage of the "Coburn Amendment." […]
Nominated for an INDEX Award, David Swann's ABC Syringe changes color when it's exposed to air, thus providing a visual alert that it may be unsafe to use. The device could save more than a million lives each year.
Brooke Martin's iCUPooch, which combines video and dog treats, is one of ten finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
Does great art last because it is great or is it great because it lasts? Do works find a place in the canon by familiarity, like a ubiquitous tune you […]
After over a decade of research, biotech startup Bionym is ready to go public with Nymi, a bracelet that uses the unique electrical activity produced by the wearer's heart as identification.
Oxford University researchers have discovered a protein that prevents genes from adapting to differing levels of light. Suppressing this protein in mice caused their body clocks to adjust much faster.