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With Valentine's Day just around the corner, love is in the air. Or is it oxytocin? Research suggests that the so-called "love hormone" isn't all roses and heart-shaped chocolates.
While an actual level of shady and dishonest practices is probably impossible to measure, the U.S. has slipped from 19 to 22 in the latest ranking of perceived public corruption.
Today we are being told of the purported economic payoffs of, above all, the promise of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality.
Social media, most notably Facebook and Twitter, have featured prominently in recent years as tools of the opposition in insurrections against entrenched regimes.
With Hosni Mubarak out, there are key things the U.S. should do to help Egypt not go the way Iran, Russia and China went during their revolutions, allowing tyrannies to take over.
Two years before opening his Barnes Foundation in 1925, Dr. Albert C. Barnes vowed that in his new institution, “negro art will have a place among the great art manifestations […]
Is the rise in boob jobs and other elective surgeries a sign of renewed consumer confidence, or a harbinger of continued economic malaise?
The DealBook editor breaks business leaders into two major categories, embodied by Apple's Steve Jobs on one end and GE's Jeff Immelt on the other.
Well, not everyone can live at C Street... Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is demanding an investigation into reports that at least 32 members of Congress are […]
Where did the week go? Some news! Webcams: Eruptions readers have been keeping an eye on a lot of volcanoes lately - and it sounds like it has paid off. […]
Last week TSA Administrator John Pistole bestowed very limited collective bargaining rights on the nation's 40,000 Transportation Security Officers. Even if the TSOs vote to unionize, they will be barred […]
Last week, I introduced a course I am teaching this semester on "Science, Environment, and the Media," and asked students as well as readers to describe in the comment sections […]
Sex-abuse scandals involving priests have shaken Ireland but is that enough to break the grip of the Catholic Church?
Over the last decade, top food and agriculture biotechnology firms and trade associations spent $572 million in campaign contributions and lobbying Congress.
Yoga is not as old as you think…nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth.
Staphylococcus aureus is a hard bug to kill, but now researchers think they may have found a way to conquer it by blocking its ability to perform a critical task: recycling.
Why are young men in porn-rich Japan growing indifferent or even averse to sex with live partners? Today's synthetic hyperstimulation triggers more potent dopamine trips.
Injections are less painful if you resist the natural impulse to look away, scientists have claimed. People had a higher pain threshold if they looked at the arm or hand being treated.
There’s a young field at the interface of science and mathematics called spatial statistics. It’s so new that its first international conference is taking place next month in the Netherlands.
It's hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak's speech was for Egypt. It is virtually impossible to conceive of a more poorly conceived or executed one.