As nations around the world race to copy U.S. economic success, it is a startling fact that the United States has never devoted even a single penny to direct national support for regional innovation clusters
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
How long would you last resisting the marshmallow? That is the question asked in the "kid torture" video, a recreation of the study done in the 1960s at Stanford analyzing behavior, willpower, and success.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Kay Thorton has been blind for almost nine years. She had a rare disease which essentially stopped her body from producing moisture, causing her corn...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand – if only it weren't so b...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
US scientists have uncovered a defence mechanism in bacteria that allows them to fend off the threat of antibiotics....
AP | MATT CURRY and BETSY BLANEY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green
DALLAS — Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped fe...
Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
58-year-old Paul Karason suffered a shocking side effect from the drug "colloidal silver," which he used to treat a skin condition: his skin turned bl...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Photographer James Balog unveiled some amazing time-lapse videos of extreme ice loss during the recent TED conference. The images are from the Extrem...
TEDTalks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Balog has been going up north to shoot the half-alive ice of the mammoth glaciers for his Extreme Ice Survey, a look at the shocking effects of abrupt climate change in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland.
New Scientist | Sanjida O'Connell | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
The Today Show examines the possibility of time travel and scientific advancements that might make such travel a reality. NBC's Keith Miller Reports:...
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
There are too few good books about the positives and negatives of research careers in science. Philip A. Schwartzkroin, a neurosurgeon who specializes in epilepsy research, has written such a book.
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific isla...
The Los Angeles Times | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies t...
Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
We introduced you on Tuesday to Calvino Inman, a young teen who has an illness which causes him to cry tears of blood for up to 15 minutes at a time. ...
SmartPlanet.com | Andrew Nusca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
A new generation of contact lenses built with tiny circuits and LEDs could make bionic eyesight a reality. Researchers at the University of Washing...
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology....
Levi Novey | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.
Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Advance Market Commitment (AMC) is a new market-based financing mechanism that accelerates the delivery of life-saving vaccines for children worldwide.
Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
The "Today Show" has an interesting report on how the science for cloning long-dead animals, including dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, has taken large ...
Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
In an illness straight out of a science fiction story, Calvino Inman cries blood up to three times a day. His doctors as of yet cannot figure out why...
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
Every Ramadan, Sheikh Mohammed gathers intellectuals from across the Arab world to personally listen to their success stories and to benefit from their wisdom.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
HuffPost Green posted some informative animal stories this week, which we hope that you enjoyed. Flip through our slideshow for a refresher and don't ...
TEDTalks | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media
Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world this summer at the U.S. State Department.
Jonathan Sallet | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology