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Crystal formations on the moon’s surface, found by India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe, prove that “a rolling ocean of magma once engulfed the rocky body of our satellite.”
A new human sex hormone that has been found in men could lead to the development of the male birth control pill, researchers have said.
British candy manufacturer Cadbury has stepped up its defence against a hostile takeover bid from US-based Kraft Foods worth $17.4bn.
The last surviving member of the group who helped shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis, Miep Gies, has died in a Dutch nursing home aged 100.
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by bomb in a booby-trapped motorbike which exploded outside his home in a suburb of Tehran.
China has “successfully tested a missile interceptor” according to state media – with officials insisting the technology is “defensive” and “not targeted at any country”.
Last month, the EPA finally, officially, publicly, decided that greenhouse gas emissions do pose a threat to the environment and to human health and wellbeing. Groups like the Environmental Defense […]
The Nation says public subsidy can save journalism in America. The Columbia Journalism Review predicts public outcry at impending Wall Street bonuses. The U.K.’s Digital Economy Bill could grant Google […]
Paleontologist Peter Ward, professor of biology at the University of Washington and an expert on mass extinction events, stopped by Big Think today to discuss nothing less than the fate […]
Historian Nancy Koehn sat down with Big Think to talk about the future of business. In this video, she addresses the matter as it pertains to our workforce's youngest generation: […]
Jury selection starts this week in the trial of Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the assassination last May of George Tiller, a doctor vilified by pro-lifers for performing late-term […]
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The mortgage market indicated that what the banks faced was a solvency problem, not just a liquidity problem, says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith says the question is, how do you achieve just a bit without getting too much?
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Vernon Smith sees an age of people creating derivatives markets on public policy outcomes.
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We forgot the lesson of the ‘roaring 20’s’ in the case of the housing markets and that’s what caused a recurrence; you see of a lot of the same conditions […]
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Even though the circumstances would be foreign to him, the great Austrian economist wouldn’t be surprised.
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Economist Vernon Smith has said that most bubbles do not bring down the entire economy when they pop. So what happened this time?
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A conversation with the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
The fight over who owns art might have just gone nuclear, and Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting The Night Cafe is at the center of it. The descendents of the […]
From my own observation of having lived and worked in both the United States and Britain the main difference between media coverage of politicians in both countries is that of […]