It was a blistering hot day in January and the dirt streets of Avaniapuram, a tiny village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were turned into a gladiator arena. Villagers dressed in [...]

Hayder Alijanaby eats brains with businesslike tidiness. He squeezes a piece of hemisphere into a wad of bread, then pushes it into his mouth. [...]

Two years ago, several research vessels shipped out to the North and the South poles to assemble a census of creatures living under the ice. [...]

For hobbyists like Colette Theriault, a photographer who lives in Ontario, orchids are an addiction. [...]

In the next 20 years industrial biotech will surge, according to a new analysis of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). [...]

Texas doled out the first round of grants from a $3 billion publicly funded program to boost in-state cancer research. Almost all of the initial $61 million went to in-state academic institutions like University of Texas, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. [...]

It's an elegant idea—you ride your motorcycle to the filling station, pull up to the compressor where other people are filling their tires and top off your fuel tank with air. [...]

They tried to fit in at this year’s iGEM synthetic biology competition. They really tried. Piers Millet from the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs sported a white hoodie with an iGEM insignia that was slightly too tight. [...]

When Ros Gleadow opened the airlock to the greenhouse at The Australian National University, she stepped into the atmosphere of the future. [...]

Brooklyn, New York, April 21, 19:00 hours: Molecular biologist Ellen Jorgensen and I spread a plastic tarp over my cherry table and parquet floor. Then, one by one, we set vials and pipettes down, preparing a lab in my living room. [...]

To get to know the Biomimicry Guild is to learn its biology-inspired lingo: Its members aren't a group—they're a "meme." They don't reject ideas—they have an "immune response [...]"

Something strange has been happening in the marine grasses that shelter over 4000 kinds of species in the Indian River Lagoon, located on the east coast of Florida. Dolphins have developed crusts of fungus on their fins (60 died this past year). [...]

Seventeen years ago, a pair of climbers in the Italian Alps stumbled on a leathery corpse hunched in a pool of melting ice. At first they thought the body was fresh, but the copper ax, wooden bow and quiver of 14 arrows spoke of a man from another time. [...]

As if the sandwich-board prophets needed another excuse: December 12, 2012 marks the end of time, or at least the end of the calendar cycle, according to Maya astronomy [...]

Entering the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History brought me face-to-face with a fuzzy replica of one of our earliest ancestors, Lucy, a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis who lived 3.3 million years ago. [...]

In the 1995 Eco-Challenge, adventure racer Robyn Benincasa and her teammates decided to complete the seven-day, 300-mile course without wasting time on sleep. “That,” she now admits, “was a bad idea.”[...]

For Gretchen Garman, 29, a volunteer in Malawi, the symptoms came on suddenly and violently. "I was exhausted but otherwise fine, and then all at once I was nauseous, vomiting, and had a103-degree temp [...]

No place on the map measures up to the Thai-Cambodian border for breeding super strains of malaria. The forest region, a magnet for gem miners searching for pigeon blood rubies and Pailin blue sapphires, has already twice spawned resistance to our best drugs [...]

In her 62 years studying the sea, the National Geographic Explorer in Residence has spent 6,500 hours exploring life underwater[...]

Better known as the French Spiderman, Alain Robert, 45, considers the cityscape his jungle gym. He has scaled the five tallest skyscrapers in the world with nothing but his bare hands[...]

It was an unlikely conference room, a barren hill 150 kilometers southeast of Mumbai. But that’s where the three partners met. [...]

Cameron Sinclair: Design Within Everyone's Reach
The founder of Architecture For Humanity tries to change the world by bringing thoughtful, inexpensive design to the world's neediest.

At 26-years-old, Cameron Sinclair was a self-acknowledged CAD monkey, grinding out blueprints for a New York architect. Ten years on, he’s now the design world’s big kid on the block. [...]

Waterless World
Himalayan ice is melting quickly. When it’s gone, Asia could be in serious trouble.

Without ice, the Zanskaris would be isolated into oblivion. The yak herders and barley farmers of this former Buddhist kingdom of about 10,000 souls depend on the Zanskar River in India’s high Himalayan mountains. [...]

When West Virginia University surpassed the coal mines as the city's largest employer 20 years ago, something funny happened in Morgantown: The two seemingly disparate cultures melded [...]

The word bhaiya is permanently ingrained in my head. "Brother," it's the first word we use when we stop the car to ask for directions. We start with the rickshaw drivers. They know best [...]

JERUSALEM, Feb 4 (AFP) - Every time a Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself and Israeli bystanders to pieces, throwing flesh and body parts across crowded streets, a small group of dedicated [...]

JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (AFP) - Israeli security experts who have spent years carefully compiling profiles of potential suicide bombers have been sent back to the drawing board after what is thought to be [...]

RAMLE, Israel, Jan 17 (AFP) - Romanian Kira Dino sits with his head in his hands in Masiyahu prison, the last stop for illegal immigrants before deportation. As the economy plummets, Israel has set [...]

JERUSALEM, Dec 4 (AFP) - Israeli forces on Tuesday launched attacks on key Palestinian symbols of autonomy, including Gaza International Airport, as the authorities announced they were stepping up [...]

Business meetings can be a gigantic bore, especially for a junior employee whose opinions have little sway in a company. For the unfledged, sitting quietly while others talk can feel like a waste [...]

As a potential employee, you have two occasions to take a deep breath and do your soul searching: Once before the interview, and another before accepting the job. "Think about how much time you [...]