Global institutions require the leadership of great powers; it remains to be seen whether this century's powers are up for the task, says Harvard professor Joseph Nye.

Why do some thrive under stress and others fall apart? The Boston Globe takes a new look at why we choke under pressure, and what we can do about it.

Arguments about green technologies tend to focus on what, if anything, the government should do to get people to adopt them. Those who would dismiss them generally argue that global […]

After fuseproject’s sleek WattStation electric vehicle charging stations for GE, Nissan enters the designer charging station market with Solar Tree – a futuristic solar-powered vehicle charging station. The 40-foot concept […]

It is a phrase more often heard in London than Washington, but which has driven British defence policy since the end of the Suez crisis in 1956. It is that […]

Six months ago, in late April, Research teams at the NASA Infrared Telescope facility in Hawaii made an astonishing discovery. They found that both water ice and organic compounds exist […]

"Shortly before the announcement of National Security Advisor James Jones' resignation, Spiegel spoke to him about the war on terror and the state of Pakistan."

"The welfare state met its end in Britain this week, when British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne repudiated the concept of the 'universal benefit.'"

New wireless networks that relay body organ data to mobile devices will allow athletes and at-risk patients to monitor their health more effectively.

"Quantum entanglement—a bizarre instantaneous link between particles—has been proven to occur." Understanding the phenomenon may result in much faster computers.

"The first economic analysis of growing genetically modified crops on a wide scale has found that the biggest winners were the farmers who decided not to grow them."

"The Internet has been lauded by Nobel Peace prize-winning Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo as 'God's gift to China'." Xiaobo says activists can use the Internet to their advantage.

"Community is built upon conversations. People like to eat, and they like to talk about it. … The new food movement is still labeled as Do It Yourself, but it’s really Do It Ourselves."

"The powers that be have yet to agree on how to compare electric cars with conventional ones, making it difficult for consumers to work out how much money, if any, they will save."

"The impulse to be social is so deep-seated in human consciousness that it’s even evident in the womb, suggests a new study on the interaction of unborn twins."

"When we talk about the hipster, we’re talking about a cross-subcultural figure who emerges by 1999 and enjoys a narrow but robust phase of existence from 1999 to 2003."

Today’s New York Times reported on the phenomenon of declining picture book sales—for children. Pictures, apparently, are not advanced enough for our little ones, even when they are still in […]

NASA’s $150-million, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP) has been gathering information about the nature of our Universe for nine years and has changed the way we think about it forever.  […]

This year Californians will vote on a ballot proposition that would legalize the sale and possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Democrats around the country will be […]

In a front page story at the NY Times today, Bill Vlasic describes efforts by Nissan and the Federal government to cultivate the first generation buyers of the Nissan Leaf, […]