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Professional demands in the US typically require women to sacrifice familial responsibilities, but women should not have to choose between the two, says Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Soccer, or football as it's known to the rest of the world, is truly a universal sport. Its popularity spans genders and continents, and in terms of equipment, it also has the lowest barrier to entry.
Stress has always had a bad rap because of its effect on a person's health, but according to a recent study stress isn't so bad at all. Scientists explain how stress can actually boost the immune system.
A new generation of college graduates has been had by the American higher education system, which insists on costly degree programs to justify its corrupting influence on society.
The modern man supposedly sympathetic to feminist goals in the Nice Guy, who defines himself according to his liberal values. But it's just more patriarchy in disguise, says Eva Wiseman.
People who live alone and/or feel alone have a higher possibility of disability or early death, according to new studies.
The supposed luxury of cheap fashion becomes less glamorous when you realize you've been dressed in rags by a corporate business model that emphasizes quantity over quality.
Researchers from Glasgow University say that men who drink tea could have a higher risk of prostate cancer than men who don’t drink tea.
A new digital camera out of Duke University is set to change the way we take and use photographs, surpassing the limits of human biology and expanding on nature's power.
A new tactile sensor developed at the University of Southern California is more sensitive to the touch than an actual human fingertip. The technology will help advance prostheses and AI.
With Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley well-established, Jeff Slobotski believes that cities like Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City may form the backbone of a new generation of tech start ups.
Madrid, Spain, has become the first city to integrate smart pavement into its infrastructure. The technology will offer citizens improved Web access while collecting data on pedestrian flow.
Physicists at the Israel Institute of Technology are working on a new structure that could bring the popular science fiction device to real-world situations such as the operating room.
Scientists from Harvard, Caltech, and the Max Planck Institute have succeeded in keeping a bit of quantum information, or qubit, stable in an artificial diamond for more than a second.
The European Space Agency has committed to building a new space telescope whose sole purpose will be to unravel the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Two European physicists are attempting to explain black holes in the language of quantum mechanics. If successful, they could reconcile competing theories of how gravity works.
Tropical lakes of methane recently discovered on the surface of Titan hint at subsurface oases, which could produce compounds analogous to proteins and information-carrying molecules.
China has become just the third nation to dock spacecraft in orbit. The country's progress in space technology has been rapid despite being excluded from the International Space Station.
How has Twitter changed the cultural and literary landscape aside from knowing what your friends had for lunch? For one thing, it has rescued the aphorism from our self-obsessed culture.
In Google's latest bi-annual transparency report, the company says it has received more requests from western democracies than ever before to take down political information.