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Everyone in Yemen is catching it.  Early last week, seven ministers and two deputies resigned their posts so that they could compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for April.  […]

"Instead of the vast expanses of leisure time imagined by science fiction writers, we now get one hour less sleep per night than our parents’ generation did."

The sounds of nature, from bird song to waves crashing to the white noise of grass blowing in the wind, have an indisputably soothing effect on the human psyche. While […]

"The time taken to 'fall in love' clocks in at about one-fifth of a second, not the six months of romantic dinners and sharing secrets some might expect."

"American journalists in Baghdad were under attack not just from Iraqi insurgents, but, at least verbally, from our own country's civilian and military commanders as well."

Is our universe simply a hologram? Particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan is building the most precise clock of all time to directly measure whether our reality is an illusion.

"A man's shaved head—whether it's to-the-skin or with slight stubble—can suggest a sigh-inspiring combination of intellectual depth and machismo."

I am supposed to working on a piece about the suicide bombings for the CTC right now- and that deadline clock is ticking sweatily away- but came across this amazing […]

While we still haven’t quite discovered the fabled Fountain of Youth, a major breakthrough was recently made toward the goal of eternal life. Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered […]

"Advances in laser technology and the field of quantum information science have allowed researchers to demonstrate Einstein’s theories at much more ordinary scales."

Oh, look, Vanessa Grigoriadis has a another very polished but utterly vacuous feature in New York Magazine. She’s marking the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Pill with some […]

Recently, I’ve been getting calls from the media, asking me about the 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie which shows a person talking into what appears to be a cell phone. How […]

In the pre-modern world, circadian rhythms were synched with the rising and setting of the sun, but modern life requires many to adjust their internal clocks to accommodate alternative sleeping […]

"Basically, we’ve bought into several misconceptions about excellence, which are not only wrong but affirmatively counterproductive." Peter Orszag on how to be successful.

For most art history students, the days of Dadaism and Surrealism seem like ancient history—two “-isms” buried beneath the quick succession of newer and newer “-isms” reigning ever since. Illustrator […]

nn Not much in the way of science to add here, but photographers at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park are still busy around the clock documenting the summit vent activity at […]

A quick note (as I’m buried in zircon): The Alaska Volcano Observatory has installed a webcam at Redoubt to monitor for an eruption. It is a little cloudy today (not […]

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]

The new lava dome on Redoubt continues to grow, but it might not be long now before it collapses, potentially producing pyroclastic flows, lahars and a big explosion.

"That the Great Recession could bring hope for a major recalibration—a resetting of all the clocks—is not surprising. Unfortunately, though, it’s not happening in any meaningful way."

Everyone has grown up hearing fantasy stories about the “fountain of youth.” We are still far from finding the fabled Fountain, but today the real question is quickly becoming “Would […]

1 Wired Science – Wired Blog 2 Watts Up With That? 3 Climate Progress 4 Environmental Capital 5 Dispatches from the Culture Wars 6 TierneyLab – New York Times blog […]

Out of all the suggestions that have been thrown around about who should be the next Presidential science advisor, I think Bora over at A Blog Around the Clock might […]

European airspace begins to reopen as the eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull settle down for the time being.

These are things now that are in the realm of science fiction but I think that people in the coming years will start hearing more and more explosive results as […]

If Europe has one defining cultural characteristic, it is that it has none. This may sound like too neat a paradox, but it’s not that far from the truth. There […]

Nobel-Prize winning physicist William Phillips admits that “laser cooling” is a somewhat confusing concept. How can light energy, generally thought of as a source of heat, be used to cool […]

When the invasion comes, head for the mountains. Sorry, flatlanders!

Because of William Phillips’ work in laser cooling, atomic clocks are almost a thousand times better than they used to be.

Independent from Denmark for a week every year, the kingdom of Elleore has acquired a fair number of quirks since its founding in 1944.