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In the video below, Liam Neeson alerts us to the plight of children we can’t see.
What does Mercury’s surface look like?
While the N.I.H. has prohibited research involving it sown chimpanzees since 2011, VandeBergargues that chimpanzees and gorillas may die from diseases “that could have been prevented or treated by medical products developed from research with chimpanzees.”
The Ukrainian designer Alexey Kashpersky’s digitally enhanced drawings were awarded first prize in a competition that charged participants with conveying “humanity’s complex relationships with [the HIV] virus, be they emotional, political, or intellectual.”
Advanced analysis of DNA from all over the world has revealed that men’s most recent common ancestor lived 120,000 to 156,000 years ago.
It is quite possible that future generations will view A-Rod, and his baseball peers who have used PEDs, as victims of circumstance.
The Buenos Aires transport authority released video footage of train drivers sleeping, reading and on their mobile devices while operating trains at high speeds.
Every decision we make depends for its success on our ability to weigh the evidence and choose the wisest course, given our objectives. In session 5 of her Big Think Mentorworkshop on The Seven Essential Life Skills, Ellen Galinsky reviews the research and offers tips for building critical thinking skills in adults and children.
The future of Comet ISON does not look bright,” says the astronomer Ignacio Ferrín of the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.
Doctors offered to turn off Stephen Hawking’s life support machine in 1985, the British cosmologist revealed in a new documentary to be released along with his memoirs this fall.
The weather has been all over the place this year, with record highs and lows recorded in hundreds of different locations around the globe. So how exactly are temperatures changing globally?
The stem cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996 has outlined how to resurrect a woolly mammoth by using cells from frozen carcasses.
“We may soon be rescuing people from death’s clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died.”
Watch these girls comment on the perversity of the sexuality in marketing to young girls.
A view of the clouds from above, via Astronaut Karen Nyberg
The bright surrounding ring is atmospheric haze above Titan, the largest Moon of Saturn. This image was captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft.
Should Manning be found guilty or innocent?
NASA’s Cassini orbiter has spent 8 years taking pictures of Saturn’s rings and moons, resulting in 200,000 pictures, and this wonderful video montage below.
In this video, Former Army Staff Sgt. Glen Lehman demonstrates the progress of brain-interfacing prosthetic devices.
Carissa Yip has been playing chess for one-third of her life, that is, three years. In this extremely short amount of time the 9 year old Massachusetts girl has reached […]
Dogs are capable of copying our behavior as long as 10 minutes after it’s happened.
With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California.
If Superman punched you in the face you would hardly feel a thing.
Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, is using technology to “flip the classroom” and in the process revolusationize education.
What does this desecration mean?
Stills from the video of the tragic derailment.
Would you kill a baby if you knew he would grow up to be Hitler?
We are sitting on “an economic time bomb.”
It doesn’t take a study to explain that being better able to listen to and understand others will make you more successful in your career and your relationships.
After investigating deadly school bus accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board made recommendations for the development of connected-vehicle technology.