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When one studies the philosophical foundations of physics for a living, even the most trivial of everyday objects poses profound questions. For the Columbia University professor David Albert, who spent […]
With unemployment hovering around 10%, it looks likely the Democrats could lose a substantial number of seats in the 2010 midterms. In fact, the economic climate already seems to have […]
The underwhelming results of the Copenhagen Accord during last month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark sent me searching my mental files for examples of how art has documented […]
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Why do some societies seem more conformist than others? And how can all societies avoid the kind of foolish conformity that leads to financial bubbles and panics?
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Locusts weren’t just our ancestors' problem; they still impact the livelihood of 1 in 10 human beings. The discovery that their "swarms" are actually cannibalistic melees may offer a solution.
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Unlike many species, humans have had to adapt to living in large crowds. Yet in many ways, our crowds are as predictable as animals’.
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Cutting-edge research that suggests small and large-scale biological collectives behave similarly promises to deepen our understanding of cancer.
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How the awesome computational power of video game cards has transformed the study of evolution.
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From the formerly migratory North American squirrel to the much-misunderstood lemming, biologist Iain Couzin explains the power of animal collectives.
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Animal flocks, schools, and swarms perform extraordinary feats of collective behavior. How do they do it, and how does it help them?
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The expert on animal collectives reveals whether he considers himself an ordinary member of the human crowd—or, like his favorite band, a maverick.
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A conversation with the Princeton University biologist.
Two recent news stories have begged the question of privacy: body scan technology that might have found explosives tucked into a Nigerian man’s underpants on Christmas Day and Facebook’s new […]
America’s Central Intelligence Agency is caught up in a “bureaucratic bog” which heightens the risk of terrorism to the USA because the system is overwhelmed, says The Washington Post.
The Hubble Telescope has taken the earliest snapshots of galaxies in the universe’s infancy, about 600 million years after the Big Bang.
Google’s rival to Apple’s iPhone hits the market to a fanfare of adulation and scepticism in equal measure – but can it live up to its “superphone” tagline?
Planet Earth could soon be wiped out by an explosion of a star more than 3,000 light years away according to research by American scientists.
Three Democrats, two senators and one governor, have ditched plans to run for re-election striking the latest blow for President Barack Obama’s Democrat administration.
Yemeni police have captured what is believed to be the key Al-Qaeda chief behind the threats on foreign embassies in the capital Sanaa, according to security officials.
Pending sales of previously owned US homes tumbled 16 per cent during November – a much higher number than predicted because of the end rush to beat tax credits.