Daniel_Stuckey writes "A NASA veteran, aerospace entrepreneur, and space-based solar power (SBSP) expert, [John] Mankins designed the world's first practical orbital solar plant. It's called the ...

Stockbyte/ PunchStock/ Getty Images An article by Scientific American. Public opinion towards science has made headlines over the past several years for a variety of reasons - mostly negative. High

Steve Hockstein/Bloomberg/Getty Facebook can lose a few users and remain a perfectly stable network, but where the national grid is concerned simple geography dictates that it is always just a few ...

The departing US Homeland Security Secretary used her farewell speech to warn the nation's leaders of an impending "serious" cyber-attack as well as a natural disaster, the impact of which will ...

CREDIT: Love Wins Ministries A group that for years has handed out food to the homeless in Raleigh every weekend was threatened with arrest if they continued their charity work. This past Saturday ...

An anonymous reader writes "Opening a fascinating set of ethical and legal issues, researchers at UW Seattle have demonstrated the first device to allow direct communication between two humans' ...

Just weeks after resigning from a key position in the White House the United States' lead copyright officer has joined an ant-piracy trade group that lobbies for influence in the government on ...

The fact that the United States has become increasingly unequal in terms of income, wages, wealth and opportunity has hit the mainstream and public demands for economic fairness have gone viral. As

The NSA scooped up around 56,000 domestic emails per year 'with no connection to terrorism,' reports the Associated Press. The NSA is declassifying three documents that reportedly show how they made

This is what data from a world in turmoil looks like. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) tracks news reports and codes them for 58 fields, from where an incident took place t...