Remember that odd uncle who declared he would invent a device to change the world? No? No problem, Quantum Conundrum will give you that uncle and all the odd science to go with it. Grab your goggles ...

It’s a physics problem that baffled scholars for centuries, and it all has to do with our feline friends! Let’s take a look through physics history at why cats always seem to land on their feet. * A ...

Disc-based video games, the ones that cost $60 and come in a plastic box, may be heading the way of the VHS cassette and the eight-track tape. Many industry pundits believe that by 2020, if not sooner ...

Researchers have proffered a new mathematical model that seeks to unravel a key evolutionary riddle -- namely what factors underlie the generation of biological diversity both within and between ...

Several recent blog posts and a session at Scio13 (discussed here) have addressed ethical issues in citizen science. Ethics in research is taken extremely seriously in academia: every single research ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Being fully engaged in a task feels invigorating. No matter how challenging it is, we just can’t peel our minds away from it. Whether ...

The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades. Mountain-building models tend to focus on the deep-seated ...

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Being fully engaged in a task feels invigorating. No matter how challenging it is, we just can’t peel our minds away from it. Whether we’re sitting at our desks or cooking dinner, we constantly ponder ...