A conversation with the MIT Professor and Director of the Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group.

As the universe’s expansion accelerates, other galaxies will fall off the observable horizon—leaving ours as lonely as scientists before Einstein used to think it was.

Like many physicists, Michio Kaku thinks our universe will end in a “big freeze.” Unlike many physicists, he thinks we might be able to avoid this fate by slipping into […]

The likelihood of a doomsday war has declined since the Soviet Union fell, but the chances of a nuclear attack on a major city have risen dramatically. How can we […]

A nearby star system may “go supernova” in 10 million years—far sooner than scientists once predicted.

If asteroids or supernovas don’t kill Earth, our planet will die when the Sun swells up and vaporizes it. By that time, Ed Sion hopes we’ll have long since packed […]

Fortunately, the technology to intercept and destroy renegade space matter is no longer a Hollywood myth.

A conversation with the astronomer and astrophysicist at Villanova University.

The promise and thrill of discovery are what keep scientists going in spite of endless frustration.

Doctors’ visits will soon include the sequencing of “at least part of your genome.” If scientists don’t clearly explain the reasons for this, they’ve failed the taxpayers who fund their […]

Prolonged graduate education hampers promising careers, says Gregory Hannon. Better to give scientists hands-on experience early.

As sequencing individuals’ genomes becomes cheaper and easier, how can we prevent the release of private genetic information onto the Web?

Finding the common point of vulnerability that makes threatened cells collapse may help science overcome the troublesome uniqueness of human cancers.

A bizarre facial tumor has decimated the Tasmanian devil population in recent years. Spurred by a worried grad student, Gregory Hannon set out to unlock the secrets of the disease.

The use of RNA interference (RNAi) as a gene manipulation tool may revolutionize cancer treatment. What barriers must be overcome before it produces new therapies?

From the “organized chaos” of Dr. Gregory Hannon’s laboratory, new ways of studying the evolution of cancer are emerging.

A conversation with the molecular biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Why Juan Battle never wants to lose his enormous laugh.

“How dare she be so strong as to not do something some females are too weak to do?”

What happens when you see yourself as the flavor of the month.

“We all cheat,” says Juan Battle, “but we don’t get caught and we don’t do stupid things like leave ridiculous messages on the voicemail of a cocktail waitress out of […]

Juan Battle has found that in the black population, discussions of sex and sexuality revolve around money.

Decades after figures like Bessie Smith asserted masterful control over black female identity, some racial and sexual stereotypes refuse to die.

A conversation with the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Professor.

Business has a new responsibility to lead consumers in a sustainable direction.

Oil is not the biggest challenge that we have in store over the next decade.

In the wake of the financial crisis, Peter Brabeck argues that creating shareholder value is simply not enough to promote a green future.

Is the sustainability discussion focused too heavily on a low carbon economy?

Internet life tends to wrap us up in our own narrow interests and points of view. The “Bloggingheads” editor-in-chief believes that this can change.

Much like road rage, a retribution-based foreign policy represents an evolutionary impulse poorly suited to the modern world.