WOW: Mars Rover Sees Own Shadow In Dramatic Photo
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/24/2012 07:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com The late-afternoon sun lights up a huge Martian crater in a spectacular new ...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/24/2012 07:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com The late-afternoon sun lights up a huge Martian crater in a spectacular new ...
AP | Posted 05.09.2012
PASADENA, Calif. -- The Mars rover Opportunity is on the go again. After spending nearly five months conducting experiments in one spot, the NASA rov...
Posted 05.04.2012
By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 05/03/2012 02:06 PM EDT on SPACE.com Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could be hiding life, sci...
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.03.2012
The important take away here is that this is a false choice. The NBC News /Wall Street Journal survey makes it clear that the strongest Democratic message links fairness, and middle class opportunity.
Bonnie St. John | Posted 04.22.2012
Our journey to understand women's leadership was a collaborative process -- which, when you are talking about a mother and a teenage daughter, means we argued about everything.
Duane Elgin | Posted 04.16.2012
The first step in creating a positive future is to imagine it. If we can visualize a future of promise, we can create that future.
Lucy Friedman | Posted 05.27.2012
The Expanding Learning and Afterschool Project is a 50-state initiative that gives educators easy and direct access to research and promising practices that can help them use time beyond the conventional school day most effectively for learning.
Daron Acemoglu | Posted 05.11.2012
Economic inequality will lead to greater political inequality, and those who are further empowered politically will use this to gain a greater economic advantage by stacking the cards in their favor -- a quintessential vicious circle.
Duane Elgin | Posted 04.02.2012
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as bea...
John Friedman | Posted 03.27.2012
Wanting a better life for one's self and one's significant others is the strength behind capitalism. The quick-buck-and-the-heck-with-the-consequences attitude that became so vogue in the dot.com era was not and is not typical. For most of the history of capitalism 'built to last' was the norm.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 03.12.2012
As the song "Seasons of Love" from the musical "Rent" suggests, we receive 525,600 minutes over the course of the coming year in which to choose. Some moments will be memorable as triumphs, others fraught with struggle.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 02.13.2012
The issue is beauty, wisdom, love. If there is a better time for this than now, I'd like to know. This year has been a grinder for pretty much everyone we know. Some days, what we value the most can seem very far away, hidden.
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.08.2011
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has found what scientists believe is the most convincing evidence to date that water may have flowed on the Red Planet. ...
Lucy Friedman | Posted 02.01.2012
If you believe that to close the achievement gap in this country we've got to close the opportunity gap, I invite you to tweet why you believe our nation should #expandEDin2012.
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 01.26.2012
The journey to the launch pad is over, but Curiosity's mission is just beginning. In August, she will arrive at Gale Crater, and I know I'll be watching as she descends through the Martian atmosphere.
Alex Wirth | Posted 01.11.2012
If we accept the premise that the Occupiers are in it for the long run, that leaves me with two foreseeable results for how the protests will end. One is through a forceful removal.
John Bridgeland | Posted 01.04.2012
We know that inequality will always exist -- but inequality without mobility is completely un-American. Creating an opportunity society is again within our reach.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 01.04.2012
NEW YORK -- As of Friday morning, every state and nearly every county in the U.S. has been given an "opportunity score" to determine where in the coun...
Emily K. Schwartz | Posted 11.20.2011
As women, it's critical that we open doors for young girls who do not know they exist. These are not just doors to the unknown, but doors to the "STEM" careers: opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 10.11.2011
Having served as a legislator and a chief executive, I can't overemphasize the importance of voting as a critical civic duty. But there are countless ways to become involved, to support your community, to better your local school or neighborhood.
John H. Jackson | Posted 09.19.2011
To produce transformative educational reform, we must roll the closing credits for self-invested "reformers" and have parents, students and grassroots advocates take their rightful positions on the stage.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.07.2011
We are moving closer to the jobs market as it will inform perceptions of the economy in the primaries and eventual general election cycle 2012. Monthly jobs numbers are now economically and politically influential. And they don't look good.
Nikki Stone | Posted 09.03.2011
Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to be able to work toward our dreams. I know one good friend who has never taken that for granted.
Ben Mangan | Posted 08.29.2011
This country stands at a crossroads with regard to the role that higher education plays. Education debt is a growing barrier to future prosperity.
John H. Jackson | Posted 08.28.2011
America was once thought of as the leader of the free world. Over the next 30 years, U.S. cities and states probably will be defined by what happens with the bottom two-thirds of citizens rather than the top one-third.
Posted 05.24.2012