October 22, 2015 What if reality were really just 'Sim Universe'? Physicists propose experiment to test hypothesis that reality is just a computer simulation.
October 21, 2015 Metamorphosing beast center-stage in Sony game Knack was created to be the perfect beast to show off the spectacularly vamped up visual powers of the PlayStation 4 game console.
October 21, 2015 Chernobyl 2? Watching the world’s aging power plants North Korea’s aging Yongbyon nuclear power plant probably won't lead to a nuclear catastrophe, despite an alarming report calling it the next Chernobyl -- but the danger posed by the world’s aging reactors is real nonetheless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
