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Could Solar Geoengineering Prove Effective?
Geoengineering has been a hot topic of late and now comes a new study looking at the possibility of...
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Breakthrough Offers New Route to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow...
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Global Mobility: Science Mapped Out
A special issue of Nature examines the changing global landscape of research.
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In World First, Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Account in Germany
Using its country-specific content-blocking tool for the first time, Twitter has shut down access to a neo-Nazi group’s account...
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Future Jobs Depend on a Science-Based Economy
The 2012 presidential election will be won by the candidate who can convince voters that he has the vision...
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A New Radiocarbon Yardstick From Japan
Every historian knows about the Rosetta Stone, which had an ancient Egyptian text carved on it in three different...
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A Nobel That Points Us Toward Our Quantum Future
Scientists like to think that true measures of our understanding are our ability to predict something, and, in experimental...
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Social Media and Social Good
Social media was a major force behind last year’s Arab Spring, after communities organized and overthrew tyrannical dictators, as...
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Stem Cell Opponents File Appeal With U.S. Supreme Court
It’s been 3 years since the legality of federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESC) was...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
