After a delay of more than a year, the Large Hadron Collider that straddles the French-Swiss border near Geneva is up and running. The $10 billion device — a European enterprise built to conduct …

If you’re one of the 2.6 million plus followers of President Barack Obama’s Twitter feed, you may or may not be surprised to learn that the surprisingly small number of “tweets” send out via …

There are many ways to take time on Veteran’s Day to honor the sacrifices made by American men and women of all colors, creeds, and ethnic backgrounds. In so many ways, the individuals who …

Do NOW’s recent statements about the Letterman and Polanski controversies signal a larger shift to attract a broader membership among women of all political and social stripes by taking positions that are more in line with its basic core purpose?

RIP: Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

Coverage of Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing will dominate news for the remainder of the week, climaxing with his funeral Saturday at Boston Church, and culminating in a tsunami-like outpouring of anecdotes …

At first the thought that the Canadian government was funding research to model theoretical zombie attacks was hilarious, but when the article revealed that zombies are just a stand-in for another threat to human life—infectious disease—the hairs on the back of my next began to tingle.