A conversation with the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Samsung in North America.

The Samsung executive recounts his own rise in the business world, and advises young people preparing to enter today’s daunting economy.

Duke University Professor Randy Jirtle gives a definition of the emerging science of epigenetics.

Will search engines and social media kill the “gatekeepers” that stand between individuals and mass audiences?

A guide to the new media landscape for those at the top, and the bottom, of the heap.

Which “old-media” leaders and companies are innovating most successfully? What is it that they’re doing right? Google News’s Josh Cohen weighs in.

From the carefully developed Google Wave to improvised adjustments to the Twitter phenomenon, Josh Cohen reveals what’s next for the search giant.

Who wins or loses if publishers like Rupert Murdoch start walling off content from Google News?

Google cares about whether quality news survives, says Josh Cohen. But what about quality newspapers?

Google’s mission is to organize all the world’s information. If new media walls go up, will they have to compete to organize as much of it as possible?

Or is neither side in the wrong? A Google News exec fields the most common criticisms leveled at his company.

Josh Cohen suggests how old media companies might successfully repackage their content, but warns that easy fixes are unlikely.

How Google News was born, how it’s grown up, and what it’s still learning.

An inside look at the Google News search algorithm and how it differs from its more famous parent.

A conversation with the senior business product manager of Google News.

Banning meat from one’s diet has been hailed as essential for everything from lowering cholesterol to lowering emissions. But, as the famed nutritionist explains, the vegetarian movement is not without […]

Contrary to popular belief, pets are entirely able to eat human food, even meat.

Some local districts are working to curb childhood obesity by showing that school lunches don’t have to consist of “chicken fingers and salty foods.” Will the government listen?

There is a wealth of evidence showing that salt helps to generate high blood pressure, which in turn spurs myriad other chronic diseases; yet salt is nearly inescapable in the […]

With such a wide range of foods that are being called “organic” today, a nutritionist reminds us what the standards for the term truly are.

Despite decades of scientific attempts to find something wrong with caffeine consumption, proof of any medical threat remains elusive. But that doesn’t mean its labeling isn’t deceptive.

Certain foods often become trumped as dietary “must-haves,” but as the nutritionist warns, these claims are motivated by marketing, not health.

A conversation with the New York University Professor of Nutrition.

As Newt Gingrich explains, if Republicans take over the House and the Senate, Obama will prove to be a cross between a “tone deaf” and ineffective Jimmy Carter and Lyndon […]

According to Newt Gingrich, the psychological impact of Ted Kennedy’s Senate chair being taken by a Republican incumbent will likely be as extreme for Democrats as the defeat of 1994.

Newt Gingrich explains why Scott Brown’s success illustrates the profound anxiety and unrest being provoked by the “Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine.”

As Newt Gingrich explains, the election of Scott Brown is a clear signal that the GOP is no longer “tone deaf” or isolated and is poised to penetrate blue-state strongholds […]

Your finger is farther from your nose than your brain. So when your finger touches your nose, why do both organs feel the sensation at the same time?

Carl Zimmer’s blog, “The Loom,” often features pictures of readers’ science tattoos. Is he hiding any himself?

From parasites that alter our brain chemistry to a deadly organism decimating Sudan, the “Parasite Rex” author introduces the creatures that make themselves at home in our bodies.