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.
October 21, 2015 Quantum teleportation reaches farthest distance yet A new distance record has been set in the strange world of quantum teleportation
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.
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.
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.
October 21, 2015 Wormhole best time-travel option, astrophysicist says The concept of a time machine typically conjures up images of an implausible plot device used in a few too many science-fiction storylines.
October 21, 2015 6 implications of finding a Higgs boson particle Physicists announced today (March 14) that a particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is a Higgs boson, a long-sought particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass.
October 21, 2015 Higgs boson find may spell doom for universe A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say
October 21, 2015 One mile beneath the earth, dark matter detector nears activation in gold mine Scientists hoping to detect dark matter deep in a former South Dakota gold mine have taken the last major step before flipping the switch on their painstakingly delicate experiment.
