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In today's lesson, Mary Roach explores how these friendly microbes keep you healthy.
Bill Westheimer's current Kickstarter project, called Ascent: the evolution of analog man to digital man, imagines how man's future evolution might happen, and what we might become.
A student received a score of A+ for answering questions like "The Earth is billions of years old" by answering "False."
Flipperbot, the robot in the video below, was designed to test how sea turtles and other real-life organisms move outside the water.
Rigorous review is not a new idea. In fact, it's a method of evaluation that goes back to ancient Greece. It needs to be reclaimed.
Is innovation best pursued through fear or through long-term thinking?
If the maxim "Life finds a way" happens to hold true on a distant planet, it likely not to be our way.
We can only overcome our estrangement with people and products through refamiliarization, or the process of becoming reacquainted with humanity.
“Natural gas is in the process of wiping out the coal industry, and it’s wiping out the nuclear industry quicker than we thought.”
The picture above is an illustration of what the Jefferson Memorial would look like 25 feet underwater.
In an excerpt from Gary Greenberg's book, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, the author argues that psychiatry is out of touch with today's science.
The three winners of the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Program, the world’s largest K-12 science competition, showcased their project at the White House Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama.
No bodies of water exist on Mars. But they used to, thousands or perhaps millions of years ago, as this photo attests.
These are some of the highlights of the last three years in the life of our star.
Bruno Carcellos de Souza Coutinho didn’t think it would be necessary to go to the hospital after he accidentally shot himself with a harpoon that went nearly all the way through […]
If you missed the White House Science Fair today — which you probably did — you can see the rebroadcast below, featuring hosts LeVar Burton and Bill Nye. Here’s why […]
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant or face a federal civilian trial?
Historians believe that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, making today his 449th birthday. He also died on this date in 1616. And so Shakespeare is the subject of today's Mind Memes.
We need to support today's "Eco Warriors" so they can "get to work and keep on raising the awareness and push corporations, governments, society at large to make better decisions."