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A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old ag...
A long-awaited study of aging in rhesus monkeys suggests, with some reservations, that people could in principle fend off the usual diseases of old ag...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree. Only six percent of America's scientists id...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.
David Berreby | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment
This prejudice in favor of the typical is on full display this week, as the world reacts to the death of Michael Jackson.
Dan Agin | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living
One of the important problems with popularizations of science is that there is not one public, there are many publics, and each public has its own formal education and interest in science.
James M. Gentile | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
There is increasing concern in the scientific community that incremental research is too much the priority, that U.S. science funding has become too conservative and too risk-averse.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 07.07.2009 | Living
Music today is to live, real music as an origami frog is to a real one. Music has, in short, been dumbed down.
GlobalPost | Fulvio Paolocci and Angelica Marin | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
PECCIOLI, Italy -- In this 8th century town, amid the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, everyone talks trash. Even at the local restaurant, vis...
Linda Buzzell | Posted 07.01.2009 | Living
Research has shown that nature-connection of almost any kind turns out to be a powerful healing force.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business
Fox News had a fascinating interview with Michio Kaku, author of "Physics of the Impossible," in which they discussed Toyota's creation of a mind-con...
David Roberts | Posted 07.01.2009 | Green
Time and time again, an environment-degrading practice often defended as necessary to economic health is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be uneconomic.
Norm Stamper | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The new Drug Czar: "The discussion about legalization is not a part of the president's vocabulary under any circumstances and it's not a part of mine."
Posted 06.23.2009 | World
***UPDATE*** Readers have pointed out that this is a rendered video reconstructing in 3-D, based on the observation date the satellite sent back minut...
Daily Mail | Posted 06.21.2009 | Home
Dinosaurs may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe. Scientists believe the original meth...
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
There's nothing special about the moon. If it didn't exist, life on this planet would be largely the same,
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy
Why isn't math a natural part of all the subjects taught -- as in the case of say .... English?
Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
Several studies in recent years have claimed evidence for shorelines and other features that suggest ancient lakes on Mars. Firm evidence has remained...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 06.16.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours _ global warming's serious effects are already h...
Jamil Zaki | Posted 06.16.2009 | World
Mountains of evidence suggest that being part of a group changes our perceptions of members of other groups at startlingly basic levels.
Posted 06.14.2009 | World
An interesting use for Google Earth has emerged as "citizen spies" are applying it to uncover secrets about North Korea, such as the sites of labor ca...
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
In the car the other day, we caught a bit of Marketplace on NPR. We like Marketplace -- it puts economic news in social and political context, making ...
Rani Singh | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
William Burns, US Under Secretary of State, gave a press conference Thursday after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He was repeatedly questioned about India-Pakistan relations.
BBC News | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
The ubiquitous periodic table will soon have a new addition - the "super-heavy" element 112....
Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 06.09.2009 | Green
Today, Kenny Nava, Cathy Jones, Jorge Flores, Samantha Bonilla and about 70 other Bronx high school students will "graduate" from a new, innovative sc...
James M. Gentile | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics
With the emphasis that President Obama has rightly placed on science, it is now incumbent upon Americans to insist that science teaching be upgraded as well.
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
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ABC News called President Barack Obama's trip to Russia a "breakthrough"...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
I get many letters like this from readers...
nytimes.com | Nicholas Wade | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living