World is not flat, academic says
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One of the most talked-about books of the last two years was "The World is Flat," in which author Thomas Friedman argued that borders between countries were becoming less and less important.
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Letter: Analysts observation not exactly earthshaking.
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Christopher B. Leinberger, a visiting fellow with the Brookings Institution, believes the move into urban corridors that is occurring in the Washington area is being used as a model for urban centers across the country.
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Teaching online isn't unusual, but professors are taking advantage of Linden Lab's 3-D metaverse to shape meeting spaces to their needs and provide an added dimension to learning. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Environmentalist and author Mark Lynas paints a gloomy picture of Earth's future in Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. But in an interview with Wired News he says it's not time to despair just yet.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form the Earth's landscape.
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Some physicists are creating a revolution in the arcane world of ultra-precise clocks. And among them is a researcher who has trouble getting anywhere on time.
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For the first time, an international study is showing the gap between top and bottom students appears to be closing. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assesses students in 25 countries
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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It's a tough world, all right. Too bad it's not tougher. Right now Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.
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Researchers say results aren't necessarily transferable to human beings.
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From new place names, shrinking seas and terror attacks to soaring Internet usage, the world is changing at a more rapid pace than in previous decades, says National Geographic's chief cartographer.
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Researchers say that the recent housing downturn doesn't necessarily mean an end to economic growth.
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Travel brings home to the average cosseted Westerner a truth well understood by the great proportion of the world's population: that life is a tenuous proposition, a fragile entity.
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For more than two decades, New York scientist Richard Axel and colleague Linda B. Buck have shared a singular pursuit: to understand how the brain perceives the world&#39;s myriad of smells - from the scent of roses to the scent of refuse.
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Mother Nature may be a force, but nothing like humans when it comes to causing erosion, says a Syracuse University scientist.
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Designers who are sounding the alarm on global homogenization make a certain kind of sense.