Wikimedia Commons 11.03.2016 Humans sometimes struggle to adjust to Daylight Saving Time, but just measuring the exact...
Month: November 2016
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks about the FBI inquiry into her emails during a campaign...
11.03.2016 When driving at night, there’s nothing quite as annoying as being blinded by the full-beam headlights...
If you want to keep a New Year’s resolution, says the research, start by changing your environment....
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. / 11.03.2016 Washington Post Columnist Will Missouri be the one state next Tuesday...
An illustration from Puck mocking William Jennings Bryan and his whistle stop tour (1896) By Dr. Charles...
Greene as pictured in the frontispiece to John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598) / Wikimedia Commons Known...
By Joe Clark / 11.02.2016 Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has a big problem with increasing...
Luminous ‘Spirit’ Trumpet Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet...
Chamber in Cappuccini Catacombs with Earth from Palestine, Rome, ca. 1900, Underwood and Underwood, Bert Underwood. Gelatin...
By Liam Purvis / 11.03.2016 Important Tips for Non-Natives Who Want to Support Standing Rock A brief...
Spring forward, fall back … why? / Shutterstock By Dr. Laura Grant / 11.02.2016 Assistant Professor of...
By Mark Frauenfelder / 11.03.2016 The grand prize winner of Japan’s 2016 Good Design Award went to...
Brexit opponents disagreed with the Leave’s argument that the June vote reflected the true will of the...
He is best remembered for the magnificent portraits he produced as the court painter of Henry VIII;...
Refreshingly radioactive? / Shutterstock By Dr. Timothy J. Jorgensen / 11.02.2016 Director of the Health Physics and...
By Ray Raphael / 10.31.2016 Historian, America’s Founding Two weeks ago, Senator John McCain announced that he...
11.02.2016 People often prefer to fall asleep while watching TV, but that doesn’t always work out as...
The routes of the four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492-1504 to the Caribbean Islands and the coast...
Houston ISD trustees admonish TEA for delaying campus turnaround plan implementation. Graphic by Todd Wiseman / The...
Still from Derek Jarman’s Blue. Photo: Liam Daniel © 1993 Basilisk Communications Ltd. By Jennelyn Tumalad /...
Computers weren’t always made of motherboards and CPUs. At one time, they were human! And at NASA’s...
Cao Yinpeng, an 8-year-old from Xuzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, underwent a rigorous fattening up regiment, in...
By Raj Raghunathan / 09.28.2016 Human beings have a deep-seated desire for certainty and control. Several studies...
A massive fish die-off occurred in Redondo Beach, California in 2011 caused by oxygen-starved fish. seadigs/flickr By...
Why does that one video crack you up? / Shutterstock By Alex Borgella / 11.01.2016 PhD Candidate...
Image by Brian Rolfe By Theresa Wade / 11.02.2016 Do We All Have the Power to Heal...
If all goes well, after November 8, marijuana could be legal for medical or recreational use in...
Vietnamese refugees wait to be taken aboard an amphibious command ship. Photo by PH2 Phil Eggman, via...
New forms of entertainment and consumption abound. And yet the book endures. Swikar Patel/AP Â Â By Dr....