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Alain de Botton has provided a valuable service: giving reading prescriptions for a "shelf-help" approach to everyday problems
September 10, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Apple's iPhone 5 will get all the attention this month, but here are some lesser-known innovations whose time has also come
September 10, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
The hub of Richard Branson's plans for Virgin Galactic, where tourists and scientists alike take off for the great beyond
September 2012
| By Mark Strauss
Rovers that ride winds on Venus, robots that roll like tumbleweeds and other wild ideas for exploring space.
September 07, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Scientists are taking a closer look at the extremely rare people who remember everything from their pasts. And yes, their brains are different.
September 04, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Gene detectives tracking a deadly outbreak at the National Institutes of Health were reminded of how much we don't know about how infections spread through a hospital.
August 31, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In a new book, UCLA cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz reminds us that humans are animals too. Now, if only other doctors could think that way
August 28, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
More and more top American universities are offering courses online for free. Going to college will never be the same again
August 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Historian Erik Rutkow argues in a new book that forests are key to understanding how our nation developed and who we are today
June 14, 2012
| By Amy Crawford
Sensors in sports shoes get all the attention, but other devices can actually identify you by how you walk and help Alzheimer’s patients find their way home
August 23, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
This new research reveals how little we know about the brain and how it affects our daily lives
August 17, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In a new book, Steven Johnson encourages us to lose top-down hierarchies, typical of companies, and instead organize around peer networks
September 25, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Along with motion-sensing cameras and projectors creating augmented reality, they'll likely be among the tools training chefs of the future.
August 20, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Men are floundering in the 21st century, according to Hanna Rosin, and the shift has wide-ranging implications for the workplace and the home
September 11, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
We still have to wait a bit for Google Goggles, but augmented reality is moving mainstream, even bringing museum dinosaurs to life
August 14, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Soon new cars will have Internet access so carmakers are developing ways to reduce distractions. Like turning on the radio with the wink of an eye
August 06, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In a new book, political junkie Robert W. Merry shares his three-part test
August 13, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Some think that little computer you carry around with you is about to bring a sea change in the doctor-patient relationship. Is data power?
August 10, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Landsat satellites have been taking photos of Earth for a long time, but only now can you watch zoomable, time-lapse images of the planet's transformation.
August 03, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In a new book, University of San Diego professor Frank Partnoy argues that the key to success is waiting for the last possible moment to make a decision
July 13, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
In a new study, evolutionary biologist Sergey Gavrilets makes a fascinating claim for how monogamy took root several million years ago
July 06, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
In a new book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm traces the steps our species went through to attain a conscience
May 04, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Author Rafe Sagarin looks to the natural world for tips on how to plan for national emergencies
April 03, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
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