Astronomy October 21, 2015 Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole Scientists have discovered travelers from beyond our solar system buried under the ice of the South Pole -- not living creatures or space beings but tiny, extra-terrestrial particles known as neutrinos.
Biology October 21, 2015 Research on dung beetles, people who think they're drunk among the 2013 Ig Nobel award winners People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive? Lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home? Yep, it's the Ig Nobel awards again.
Physics October 21, 2015 5 mysterious particles lurking underground While the world's largest atom smasher was busy finding the Higgs boson particle — thought to explain why other particles have mass — physicists have been quietly building giant underground laboratories deep beneath the Earth.
Physics October 21, 2015 Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson.
Physics October 21, 2015 Is scientific genius extinct? Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert in scientific genius
Science Education October 21, 2015 First six students graduate from IBM's P-TECH school, will pursue STEM When Cletus Andoh, 17, graduates from the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, New York, on June 2, he will have earned not just a high school diploma but also an associate degree. Even more impressively, Andoh – who will be the first person in his immediate family to graduate from college — accomplished what would typically be six years of schooling in only four years. During the typical time it takes for the average student to complete high school, Andoh graduated from college with honors, been accepted to – and will attend in the fall – Syracuse University, and completed an internship with IBM Research.
Science Education October 21, 2015 Deflate-gate: The science of underinflated footballs With the so-called “deflate-gate” controversy still swirling around the New England Patriots, experts have explained the science of underinflated footballs to FoxNews.com.
Physics October 21, 2015 Quantum teleportation reaches farthest distance yet A new distance record has been set in the strange world of quantum teleportation
Physics October 21, 2015 The perfect equation: Artist combines math and art For Nelson Saiers, a great work of art can be one of the most mind-bending and elegant of mathematical equations. In fact, for this math whiz-turned Wall Street trader-turned full-time artist, math and art aren’t as different as many people claim – they’re one and the same.
Physics October 21, 2015 Scientists find cosmic ripples from birth of universe Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, the theorized dramatic expansion of the universe that put the "bang" in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, new research suggests.
Science Education October 21, 2015 World's thinnest glass shatters records -- by accident It's an earth-shattering record. At just one molecule thick, researchers at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm discovered the world's thinnest sheet of glass -- by accident.