Pop quiz: Which schools produced the most degrees in computer science in 2001? MIT? Carnegie Mellon? Georgia Tech?

You buy a DVD, and then loan it to your neighbor. You shoot a video of your new baby and make copies to send to everyone in the family. Your college professor shows a short clip of a classic film in class. You’re on vacation so you record three weeks of “Desperate Housewives.” These [...]

The sky is blue — physicists tell us — because blue light in the sun’s rays bends more than red light. But this extra bending, or scattering, applies just as much to violet light, so it is reasonable to ask why the sky isn’t purple.

“Armageddon” director Michael Bay likes big bangs, fast chases and fancy gadgets but his latest movie “The Island” takes a new turn, addressing the pressing political issue of cloning and the ethics of science.

Physicists are hunting for an elusive particle that would reveal the presence of a new kind of field that permeates all of reality. Finding that Higgs field will give us a more complete understanding about how the universe works

The British Antarctic Survey has announced the result of its competition to design a new research base on the frozen continent. The winning proposal offers researchers the opportunity to live in elevated modules perched on skis.

For 26 years, strange conversations have been taking place in a basement lab at Princeton University.

Thomas Frey: What name springs to mind when you say the phrase “famous female inventor?” If you’re having a tough time answering this, you are not alone.
I became interested in this topic when I ran across a very curious statistic. In 1980 only 1.7% of all the patent filings were filed by [...]

Are you still wondering what this podcasting thing is all about? Podcasting is essentially radio on your own terms – what you want, when you want it. Forget traditional programming schedules and listen to the ideas, music, and funny thinking of a new generation of audio personalities – on the MP3 player of your [...]