Henry Ford brought the car to the masses. Henry J. Kaiser fathered the HMO. J.P. Morgan saved Wall Street. Ray Kroc changed the way we eat.

But who was the most influential businessman, in terms of how business is conducted today? You decide.

For two days, scientists from around the world gathered at Columbia University to examine the relationship between the human condition and the condition of the Earth. Focusing on four essential determinants of human well-being-energy, food, health and water - these leading experts have…

In order to represent the Universe mathematically, physicists use a handful of constants, such as the speed of light, or the gravitational constant.

One called the “fine structure constant”, or alpha, helps describe how the forces hold atoms together and interact with light.

South African botanists say they have failed to explain the mysterious round patches of bare sandy soil found in grassland on Namibia’s coastal fringe.

They looked into possible causes of the “fairy circles” - radioactive soil, toxic proteins left by poisonous plants,…

Astronomers estimate about half the planetary systems so far discovered in our galaxy could contain Earth-like worlds.

And they say that space telescopes will be capable of observing these planets and investigating them to see if they support life in…

Two finalists in this year’s Intel Science Talent Search focused on methods for pinpointing the locations of asteroids

…the high school students came up with methods that provide useful answers much more quickly than can other computational techniques now in use.

Record numbers of people came to the Impact Lab for their news in March, and that was an improvement over the previous record in February.

“We have seen strong improvement in the traffic to the site, both in the numbers of people and the amount of time they spend at the site,” said Thomas Frey, Executive […]