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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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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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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The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
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The business consultant and author argues that we should be embracing the speed of today's hyperconnected world, rather than shying away from it
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MADISON - Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe.
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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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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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A top scientist in the study of climate change says she is optimistic about public understanding of the dangers of global warming.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days.
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.
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Not being part of a culture with a highly developed language, could limit your thoughts, at least as far as numbers are concerned, reveals a new study conducted by a psychologist at the Columbia University in New York.
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In the long-running debate on affirmative action, Scott E. Page, a professor at the University of Michigan, is a fresh voice.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Income inequality is near record levels in many countries, and the worldÂs wealth has become even more narrowly concentrated than income.
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The amount of dust blowing around the world may have serious environmental effects, geographers say.