Academics find that the finger of destiny points their way
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Male scientist are good at research because they have the hormone levels of women and long index fingers, a new study says. A survey of academics at the University of Bath has found that male scientists typically
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It can sometimes happen that on the sidelines of an event that might otherwise be merely an asterisk of history, the veil lifts somewhat to reveal the possibilities of something greater.
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The length of a girl's ring finger could be an indicator of her future sporting potential, researchers at King's College London said on Thursday.
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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The American system of higher education, long the envy of the world, is starting to become an important export.
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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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A Princeton professor strikes a chord with a bluntly titled essay.
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Ph.D. theses around the country increasingly have a surprising theme: sex tech.
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Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online.
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Tough-love academies march on, despite criticism. TIME looks inside one school's techniques
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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A play by Sophocles from the fifth century B.C. has lessons for todayâs medical students.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.