The job of the future might already be past its prime. For years, young people seeking a lucrative career were urged to go ...

Szymon Rusinkiewicz, the chair of Princeton’s computer-science department, told me that, if current trends hold, the cohort of graduating comp-sci majors at Princeton is set to be 25 percent ...

Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves. For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s vast, super-hot Fermi bubbles—structures thought to be created by a recent, ...

Bubbles burst when their caps rupture. Children discover this phenomenon every summer day, but it also underpins key mechanisms for the spread of pollutants, contaminants, and even infectious disease ...

How did a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.

Innovative research team freezes air bubbles in ice to store messages efficiently, inspired by ancient preservation methods.

“Points for honesty!” Zimmerman said. “We continue to tell a story about the mind-expanding purpose and qualities of a ...

This is, ultimately, what fuels the Billionaire Victims Club. Men like Andreessen remade America. They did so as children and ...

MIT scientists have created a game-changing new "bubble wrap" material that can turn air into water that's safe to drink.

July's imminent arrival means, among other things, that Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline is now in sight. Below ...