bigthinkeditor

“The idea is that education is moving away from a centralized physical location and more to somewhere students can learn from anywhere.”
Did you know you can raise money without having a business plan? You can get publicity for your idea without knowing anyone. You can find love even if you think you’re too busy.
While the idea of breaking the “cosmic speed limit” is purely theoretical, scientists at NASA argue that a warp-traveling spacecraft is indeed possible.
The astronomy video blogger Tony Darnell explains why conspiracy theories about COMET ISON are nonsense, but that a meteor shower might be expected in 2014.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson is giving the late Carl Sagan a fitting tribute by hosting a new 13-part docu-series called “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” on FOX.
Here is the view from Saturn. Earth is the brighter of the two spots in the image.
There is a growing realization that weather modification projects are not only possible, but could also be an affordable solution to climate change.
Look up at Saturn tonight and Saturn will be looking back at you. Well, not exactly, but the Cassini spacecraft will be orbiting Saturn and taking a picture of you.
If you don’t recognize these scars on the lunar surface – caused by ancient asteroid collisions – that is because the Moon is locked in synchronous rotation, showing only one side to Earth.
The decay of a Bs (B-sub-s) particle into two muons is one of the “rarest measureable processes in physics.”
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces last month made it the fifth hottest June on record, tied with 2006.
Jack Hidary hopes to model himself after Michael Bloomberg as a pragmatic, nonpartisan politician.
How is this magazine’s cover any different from another magazine using Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to sell copies?
A theoretical physicist has published a paper arguing the universe may be static, but the mass of everything is growing exponentially.
While you might be less dumb than your ancestors, you are nonetheless guilty of backwards thinking all the time.
Alanis Morissette’s 1996 hit song “Ironic” has finally been corrected to actually make it ironic after all of these years.
Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others that were stolen from a museum last year may have been burned.
We are blessed to have a limitless supply of one energy source that can keep our devices going: urine.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, three fears account for “the most expensive, ambitious projects humans have ever undertaken.”
Spreading misinformation about vaccinations can have deadly consequences.
Your client’s expectations about technology tend to come from his or her experience as a consumer.
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez explains some of the science behind ice cream.
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.
Expedition 36 Crew Member, astronaut Karen Nyberg, demonstrates how she washes her hair in space onboard the International Space Station.
In a video produced with the ACLU, director Oliver Stone explores the legacy of unchecked government surveillance programs, from Nixon to the current NSA spying program.
It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet.
Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime.
Should steroid use be considered, as the philosopher Alva Noe has argued, a natural extension of our technological lives?
This is hardly a breakthrough delivery system. What it represents, however, is a clever application of a technology that has high novelty value.
Wendy Luhabe explains how her mother, who refused to be a victim of circumstance, is the person who gave her a passion for mentorship.