"Eclipse watchers" have been dying to catch a glimpse of this image, captured in clear skies in central Africa, which depicts the Sun's total eclipse on November 3. 

How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today? 

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus  

One hundred years ago, your doctor was responsible for your health. Now, thanks to technology, we're at the point where we can all be the CEO of our own health.

According to some experts, trans fats won't be that difficult to replace.

A new study demonstrates how a group can complement and "average out" one’s unattractive idiosyncrasies.

"Our dominance is assured, at least for a while, by the excruciating nested complexity of the biological components-within-components-within-components of the human brain."

Kepler-78b, which is slightly larger than Earth, is the most similar in size to the Earth of any exoplanet yet directly discovered. However, the similarities end there. 

I believe imagination was a God-given tool says, Rainn Wilson in the XPRIZE Insights video below. Wilson sees arts education, therefore, as an empowering tool, which "helps define a person for who they are in their integral self."

Artists have an implicit understanding of a universal biological principle: "people have limited attentional resources."

According to a new study, the number of planets in our galaxy that could potentially support life as we know it could be as high as 40 billion.

A Big Idea Prize has been announced that will award a full-ride scholarship to a Presidio degree program for the best "Big Idea" to move the needle in sustainability.

Instead of predicting what a human might do, this computer is incredibly fast at recognizing what a human is doing. 

"Today I'm going to work on my water machine to supply clean water to 4 billion people." Dean Kamen wouldn't be able to say that unless he happened to be an eternal optimist.

These two images represent what is known as a hybrid eclipse, which involves both a total eclipse and an annular eclipse. That is what happened this weekend. The image comparison above is from 2005. 

Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer, believes that if world leaders experienced what she did, they would come up with very different policies. 

It isn't feasible to think that the potential tripling or even quadrupling of energy demand in the coming years can be met with renewable energy sources. 

The very fact that Bach's music is so profound and so uplifting and the man is clearly not a saint makes it all the more interesting. 

The author of The Red Badge of Courage, born on this day in 1871, shares today's wisdom.

The last solar eclipse of 2013 will take place November 3 and it will be a hybrid solar eclipse, meaning it will start out as an annular eclipse with a "ring of fire" (depicted above) and then become a full solar eclipse.