The memoirs of Juanita Castro reveal she spied for the US against her brother Fidel in the 1960s.

Obama is ‘pleased’ the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, according to the White House press secretary.

Only 16.5m of the promised 250m doses of swine flu vaccine have been made available and Americans are beginning to panic.

Volcanoes set the stage for the rise of the Appalachian Mountains and the ice age that followed, new research has found.

Scientists have discovered a new species of butterfly which has ears on its wings.

Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians adequate access to water.

Is the government prepared for internet clogging during the swine flu pandemic?

Michigan representative Jim Slezak is lobbying for an amendment to state law that would make abortion illegal.

Today is the 47th anniversary of the day a courageous Soviet submarine officer, Vasili Arkhipov, probably saved the world from nuclear armageddon. On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile […]

A refreshingly non-mainstream media company, INFOWARS.COM, has released a new documentary in the tradition of other cult docs like Loose Change and Zeitgeist. The new film is called Fall of […]

"Obama's War," the smart Frontline episode about Afghanistan and Pakistan, includes a disquieting exchange between a U.S. Marine and two tribal elders in a remote Afghan village. Since this Global […]

Which is tougher, finding the world’s smallest particles with a multi-million dollar supercollider, or surviving the halls of the competitive, male-dominated Harvard Physics Department as a women? Melissa Franklin, who […]

Having blogged twice -- here and here -- about the September massacre by government forces in the west African nation of Guinea, I hope we're all keeping an eye on […]

Drug-war dispatches out of Mexico, Pakistan's seeming inability to control its tribal areas, and Jon Lee Anderson's recent reporting on the largely lawless swaths of Rio de Janeiro lodged a […]

A conversation with the Harvard Professor of Physics.

Physicist Melissa Franklin would love to have a dream dinner with Samuel Beckett or Richard Feynman, but she’s afraid she’d get nervous and make a fool of herself.

Physicist Melissa Franklin recommends you avoid trying to control where your ideas take you—instead, let them do their own thing.

Empirical scientists won’t stop making fun of popular science icons like Brian Greene, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love them.

Melissa Franklin stays up at night concerned mainly about how her son is doing in Little League; though she worries about bigger problems, they aren’t tangible enough to make her […]

Why is a group of brilliant scientists spending millions to find the smallest particles in the universe? As it turns out, they will be able to teach us a lot […]