I wrote a book called Standing on the Sun because a physicist said to me once, ”To understand the way that the solar system actually worked, Copernicus had to be standing on the Sun.”
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“My client is not in a hurry,” architect and sculptor Antoni Gaudí famously responded to someone asking when his last masterpiece, the Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain […]
A group of shops in the Czech city loans customers free folding bikes in exchange for a deposit of about US$16. The program’s small size demonstrates that bike-sharing needn’t be a big corporate-led endeavor.
This image is an extremely unique solar eclipse, taken from space and revealing the Moon’s shadow on the Earth’s surface.
Capturing a smaller space object that temporarily enters Earth’s orbit could be a lot easier and cheaper while still providing valuable data, say proponents.
Using data from space telescopes, including the now-sidelined Kepler, astronomers have identified cloud structures on Kepler-7b, a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet that was one of the first discovered.
Scheduled to arrive late next year for testing, the printer will enable astronauts to make replacement parts quickly and easily, saving money as well as stress.
A team of McGill University students are working on providing poorer countries with food products, including flour, made entirely from locally grown insects. Their concept won this year’s $1 million Hult Prize.
Why do people become teachers and how do we attract the best teachers to the profession?
We should just be eating real food. If it’s raw or cooked, I’m happy if people just eat real food.
If curiosity is your curriculum the best way in which that curriculum can be undertaken is for all of your students to cut school and that’s a great idea, but it really won’t work at an institutional level in most universities.
In essence what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution.
The most puzzling thing about the madness of the arch conservatives who have taken America hostage is, how can they be so deep inside their own extremist ideological worldview […]
It’s “solemn nonsense” to try to convert nonbelievers to Christianity, said Pope Francis. Or so we think.
It couldn’t be more grimly ironic that science and medicine are being obstructed by a stalemate over payment for health care. Here’s a short message to America from the UK […]
Please read poll numbers purporting to explain how people feel about Obamacare with a grain of salt. Most Americans really don’t have a clue what it does.
A newly-passed ordinance requires all new home construction to contain the circuitry necessary to allow owners to install their own charging station. The estimated added cost is $200, a mere drop in a bucket full of multimillion-dollar homes.
SAP has developed a machine and corresponding app that, when brought together, creates a customized purchasing experience for the user while giving vendors lots of useful data.
Due to the popularity of SmallSats, industry and government agencies have come aboard the SmallSat bus. However this attention has shed light on a major obstacle: the challenge of getting those SmallSats to space in a responsive and cost-effective manner.
Scheduled to air live November 3 — on YouTube — the 90-minute show will feature performances from those who gained fame on the video platform as well as those, such as Eminem, who became famous via more old-fashioned routes.
This video animation gives us a tantalizing glimpse into one proposed method for asteroid retrieval, which would serve as a stepping stone for future missions to asteroids.
On Monday (Sept. 30) the airline announced a plan to outfit its 11,000-strong pilot corps with Microsoft Surface 2 tablets. The new “electronic flight bag” will replace the traditional bag, which can weigh nearly 40 pounds.
Fabrizio Goldstein made a splash earlier this summer when offering homeless people Spin classes on freshly minted Citi Bikes in New York City. Comedian by trade—this Vice clip in which […]
An Oxford University study looked at how susceptible jobs are to computerization, and found that “about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk.”
As user interfaces grow more sophisticated, incidences of motion sickness — and the less-well-known simulation sickness — are expected to increase. Writer Christopher Mims says this may become the new normal.
All life starts fused with its parents.
Eric Siegel on IBM’s Watson: This is the first time I’ve ever had the feeling and the impulse to say, “You know what? That’s intelligent.”
James Madison’s analysis of the American republic is often praised for its brilliance, but the 4th president could not have envisioned the chutzpah and anti-government zeal of the 2013 House Republicans.
The most striking thing you will notice is the peanut shape of the central bulge of the galaxy, as viewed from a different perspective than we get from Earth.
So I thought I’d share with you my contribution to a symposium sponsored by a fairly conservative organization on what to do to improve the teaching of the humanities. The other contributions […]