It wasn't until Jude met Jenny that the 3-year-old autistic boy understood what happy people look like. Jenny, a green trolley car with a human face, had a furrowed brow when her wheel buckled and she got stuck on a track. But after being rescued by friends, she smiled broadly - and that's when something clicked for little Jude Baines. ...more

January 16, 2009

Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. ...more

November 29, 2007

Why do some people get rich while others struggle to make ends meet? This is asked again and again by economists, sociologists and, understandably, those on the struggling end of the spectrum. ...more

September 30, 2007