A nasty and personal exchange between Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and an advocate of women in corporate boardrooms has thrown a spotlight on a serious issue in Silicon Valley: the dearth of women in...
While it may seem like young people are always using the Internet, it's perhaps surprising that only 30 percent of people ages 15 to 24 worldwide are "digital natives," meaning they've been active...
The winners of the 2013 Google Science Awards have some incredible ideas for how to improve the world around us. And these you geniuses have room to grow: The contest is for students age 13-18.
An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and violate...
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.
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.
Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.
Snake venom handler? Sex scholar? A career in science doesn't have to mean a job in a dank lab or cubicle.
Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence.
A new device invented by Eesha Khare of Saratoga, Calif., can fit inside a cell phone’s battery and recharge it fully in less than half a minute. And the inventor of the gizmo is just 18 years old.
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