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Google's controversial plan to create a digital library has been dealt another blow by the Justice Department, which has criticized the plans for having "significant legal problems" despite recent rewrites.
Ten American missionaries arrested in Haiti for trying to remove 33 children from the country in the aftermath of last month's earthquake were charged yesterday with child kidnapping.
NASA scientists have taken extraordinary photographs of former planet Pluto thanks to the technology of the Hubble Space Telescope, which has captured the spectacular gold-colored sphere.
DNA tests on Origin of the Species author Charles Darwin's great grandson have revealed that the founder of evolution evolved from the first group of Homo sapiens to leave Africa.
Scientists at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that operates using the germanium element in a move that could bring us closer to optical computing.
The Russian army has been accused of dumping nuclear waste from a base in Latvia into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television.
Taiwan is planning to sign a $111m deal in the next few days to buy 20 helicopters from a European manufacturer in a move which could provoke an angry response from China.
I saw an article in USA TODAY, titled “TVA holds lessons for Obama”, that seemed to be something I could have written myself. The author, Diane McWhorter, attempted to make […]
President Obama won office in part on the strength of his promise to be a “post-partisan” president. But Obama’s attempts to reach out to the other party—as admirable as they […]
Like most internationally-televised events, the Super Bowl is a true island. A fascinating place where people leave the real world behind in order to revel in gridiron glory and food, […]
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Helen Fisher on what it’s like to spend your career studying love.
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Online dating is much more natural than walking up to a stranger in a bar, says Helen Fisher.
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Helen Fisher believes there’s an evolutionary reason for the fact that men prefer to have intimate discussions without making eye contact with their partner.
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Helen Fisher found six personality chemicals that play off each other in relationships. There’s a reason why Bill cries during Hillary’s speech.
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People who create an early vision of a partner in their mind often hold onto it for a long time.
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In a study that asked 515 people why they went into a hookup, 50 percent of women and 52 percent of men reported that they hoped to trigger a longer relationship.
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A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor.
It started with an ox. New Yorker staff writer James Surowiecki tells the old story involving the British scientist, Francis Galton, who assembled a diverse group of people to guess the […]
Ornithologists have long connected with “citizen scientists” to gather data on bird populations and behavior. Now the Science for Citizens project has come up with a similar strategy for botany: […]
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told Charlie Rose last night that, when faced with a uniquely challenging moment in the early days of the financial crisis, he did what many […]