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“Why is the mass of the electron what it is and not 12 times larger or half the size?”
Are U.S. Guns to Blame for Violence in Mexico?
This 80-milligram robot is not only the size of an insect, it also maneuvers like flies with the help of piezoelectric muscles and rotating joints.
The video below shows Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier.
David Arenson takes the position that your life’s mission is to love yourself.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
The Moon has played a significant role in many other historical events, from the fall of Athens to Columbus’s subjugation of the Jamaican natives.
We know that diversity on corporate boards is good for business and good for the world, so what steps can we take to boost women’s representation on boards worldwide?
Robel Phillipos is a friend of suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Here is the complaint against him.
Who will last longer — Twitter or The New York Times?
As Neil deGrasse Tyson said, we spend the first year of a child’s life teaching him or her to walk and talk, “and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.”
Harvard Business School’s Robert Steven Kaplan argues in his new book, What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, that success is not about meeting someone else’s definition, but reaching your potential by defining it on your own terms.
The nano-cinematographers (that’s right, we just made up that word) used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of molecules and make a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.
Today we explore books on biology, recommended by our experts, editors and readers.
Sir Richard Branson & Forger, aka Mark Stucky congratulate each other after the success of Virgin Galactic’s first rocket-powered flight that broke the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert.
May 1, or May Day, or the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, the patron saint of workers, is a day that workers were traditionally given off following the planting of the fields that later became a bank holiday and is today an annual occasion for displays of social unrest throughout much of Europe.
How your child can join the universally human undertaking that is science, and from that moment embrace technology as something that is to be celebrated rather than feared.
The problem, some would argue, is that this line in the sand has not be drawn with a sword but with mere words, words that are being contradicted by inaction.
While this is one violent storm, scientists were actually the most surprised by how much the hurricane seems to resemble one on Earth.
After enduring years of misery, Jason Collins is now the first openly gay athlete in a major American professional sport. And yet, Collins is not technically the first.
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.