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Solve This Math Problem, Win a Million Bucks
Think you've got what it takes?
Earn a College Degree in Heavy Metal. Really.
Starting this fall, a British university will let you study Megadeth, Metallica and Maiden for credit.
Supernova Superstar: The Most Distant and Important One Yet
One ancient, exploding star could help explain two great mysteries
China Grieves for Young Grad Student Slain in Boston Bombings
Lu Lingzi, a talented Chinese grad student at Boston University who has been confirmed as the third casualty of Monday's bombings, had worked her way up from...
Leonhard Euler: Google Doodle Honors 306th Birthday of Swiss Mathematician
He is best-known for his contributions to pure mathematics, calculus and Sudoku.
Yvonne Brill
"I tell them that I'm an aerospace engineer and my specialty is spacecraft-propulsion systems," Yvonne Brill once said. "And they always look shocked." Over a...
Happy Pi Day! Here’s Some of the Wackiest Celebrations around the World
To infinity, and beyond!
NUIA EyeCharm Promises Eye Tracking on the Cheap
Germany-based 4tiitoo is working on the NUIA EyeCharm, a $60 eye-tracking attachment for Microsoft's Kinect motion controller. The product seeks $100,000 in...
The World Didn’t End, But the U.S.’s Arrogant Disregard for Mexico Should
The Maya solstice represents a hopeful new cosmological beginning—and that ought to mean an end to our tiresome arrogance and indifference toward the world south...
MOOC Brigade: With Free Online Classes, Guilt Is Part of the Bargain
By the time the seventh e-mail about coursework and assignments arrives in my in-box, the guilt is too much to take. The online class I signed up for started on...
Photo Essays
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
