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After a car crash that crushed her windpipe a Belgian woman kept a donor’s windpipe in her forearm before the transplant occurred.
Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin known as Chemical Ali has been sentenced to death for gassing Kurds at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
The Republican candidate aiming to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat from Massachusetts is leading the polls with his vow to kill national healthcare reform.
Yahoo! is being criticized now that it has sided with Google against China after keeping quiet about former hacker attacks it had full knowledge of.
The German government has warned web users that Internet Explorer is insecure after its role in the Google hackings in China.
Big banks are working to cap employee bonuses in the face of a $117bn federal tax and public fury over record payout amounts.
The world’s cheapest car which sells for $2,500 in India is slowly making its way to Europe and the U.S.
President Obama will campaign for Mass. Attny General Martha Coakley in hopes that she will replace the late Ted Kennedy and keep control of the Senate.
The Pentagon has placed blame for the Fort Hood shootings on eight Army officers for not relieving Major Nidal Malik Hasan from his post sooner.
Senator Ben Nelson has removed the deal he cut from the Senate healthcare bill which exempted Nebraska from future Medicaid payments.
13 billion years later, experimenters at UC Berkeley have recreated conditions one millionth of a second after the Big Bang when bizarre plasma filled the universe.
Five years after Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, its leader is polling at three percent while the public expects a rigged election between Moscow’s preferred candidates.
A weak internal government and such massive earthquake devastation have left a death toll that could reach 200,000 and little relief aid.
Ricky Gervais closed his Twitter account six weeks after joining to promote the Golden Globes calling the service “pointless” and users “undignified”.
The U.S. State Department will file a démarche against China over the hacked gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Scientists and Nobel Laureates have set the Doomsday Clock back by one minute because of positive arms control measures leaving humanity seven minutes from destruction.
The top U.S. climate negotiator is reminding the world that countries must follow through on the three-page agreement reached in Copenhagen despite its flaws.
Lord Robert Skidelsky sat down with Big Think the other week to talk Keynes. Skidelsky weighed the various life factors that contributed to Keynes’ economic outlook– especially the Bloomsbury Group, […]
String theory has been one of the most famous ideas to emerge from physics in the past 50 years, yet a vocal minority of physicists have criticized its failure to […]
Electronics manufacturers are banking on the successes of recent 3D theater hits such as Avatar to offer the same “surround vision” experience in your own home with 3D TVs.