Hold Apple's latest gadget for just a few minutes and you'll marvel at the existence of such a remarkable object...
Combine topology with symmetry and add a sprinkling of quantum mechanics. The result? A powerful new theory of everything...
Living in Latin America, it seems, can be hazardous to your health. A combination of drugs, organized crime, and governments that are, at times, ill-equipped to handle the challenge has proved to be lethal...
Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alt...
Swipe, swipe, pinch-zoom. Fifth-grader Josephine Nguyen is researching the definition of an adverb on her iPad and her fingers are flying across the screen. Her 20 classmates are hunched over their own tablets doing the same...
A cutaway sketch of a 1950s design proposal for the USAF's Project 1794...
The Israeli air force shot down an unmanned drone Saturday over the northern Negev desert, the nation's military said...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won a fourth term in office, after opposition leader Henrique Capriles admitted defeat...
Anybody who has been on the job market recently knows the game. Clean up your Facebook profile and make sure its secure. Update your LinkedIn profile and upload a new resume. Brand yourself, manage a positive web presence, look professional...
A commercial cargo ship rocketed into orbit Sunday in pursuit of the International Space Station, the first of a dozen supply runs under a mega-contract with NASA...
If you thought that year out around Europe was an eye opener, how about 12 months on the International Space Station? That's what's in store for two unnamed astronauts. Currently, the maximum stay on the ISS is six months, but in 2015, one Russian, and on...
"It's the 'Hey, you! Listen to me' key," says Jack Dennerlein of the Harvard School of Public Health. According to Dennerlein, an expert on how humans interact with computers, the escape key helped drive the computer revolution of the 1970s and '80s...
The trouble with a color's name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals -- especially if they have a stake in a website's emotional impact. Name a color, and you're most likely to give a misleading impress...
A team of astronomers is now looking for Dyson Spheres, massive star-scale solar power plants that extraterrestrial hunters hope alien civilizations employ...
An activist group called Civil Rights Defenders has developed a new Captcha system to keep spambots out and inform users of global civil rights issues. The new system presents a human rights question, like the one pictured above, and asks users how it mak...