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As people in different countries are able to tell their own stories they are responding to the idea of Africa as a place of permanent suffering.
We’re no closer to solving this problem than we were 20 or 30 years ago.
Going to college in the mid 70s I started to smoke marijuana occasionally and wondered why people were getting arrested. Why did I have to worry about getting arrested for this sort of thing?
Because it's not all our fault: Almost a quarter of US methane emissions come from livestock in the form of burps and farts. Now, a study is looking into ways to reduce that output via selective breeding.
Next week, the government will grant licenses to two foreign mobile service providers, who will help it achieve its goal of bringing wireless coverage to at least 80 percent of the country by 2015.
The people who think that it is a choice to be gay think that it is a bad choice. It isn't.
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used "electrochemically active ink" and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand.
A group created by the FAA is expected to recommend relaxing the ban on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.
For God little bangs might be stimulating, and might stimulate God to create other universes.
There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by "absentee owners," meaning there is "no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly."
Tonight is the closest the Moon will be to us all year, so it will appear bigger and brighter than usual. So we are hoping for clear skies for the […]
A recent US Homeland Security alert calls attention to the vulnerability of pacemakers, insulin pumps, and other health equipment to malicious attacks. As devices become smaller and more efficient, more attention must be paid.
The European Space Agency and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope produced this image of two galaxies known as Arp 142 that strongly resembles a penguin guarding an egg.
Eric Liu puts forward a “modest proposal” in this month’s Atlantic: instead of being awarded citizenship upon birth, perhaps Americans should have to pass a citizenship test just like immigrants to […]
A graduate student at MIT's Media Lab has designed a system that contains a super-cheap optical chip, which could help bring holographic technology to consumers within the next five years.
With strikes in American nerve centers such as New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, and even Las Vegas, one artist this summer is waging a one-man World War Z of […]
Forget solar energy: This weekend Vodafone will debut its new charger, which is made out of flexible thermocouple-based fabric and a plug. The charger comes in two forms: shorts pocket and sleeping bag.