Most college students put in a monster study session or two. Marina Levina's students get to spend sessions studying monsters. ...more

November 1, 2009

A cosmic alignment will occur this weekend in Tampa involving the id and the superego. ...more

February 6, 2009

Football fans awaiting President-elect Barack Obama's call for a college football playoff have another poll they can focus on in the meantime, thanks to Coldwell Banker Real Estate. Since the Akron Zips are ranked No. 1, rather than the Alabama Crimson Tide, this poll, at first glance, could cause football followers more grief than the various ballot- and computer-based rankings that determine the teams for the Bowl Championship Series title game. The real estate company released its rankings of the most affordable and expensive college towns based on a four-bedroom home with a family room. ...more

November 19, 2008

Marking a milestone in the search for Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, two teams of astronomers have parted the curtains of space to take the first pictures in history of planets orbiting stars other than our sun. ...more

November 14, 2008

Most of them won't even be eligible to vote in 2012, but eighth-graders at Hudson Middle School were as interested as anyone in the just-completed presidential election. And not just because they had a class project related to it. The students took part in "Letters to the Next President," a collaborative effort between the National Writing Project and Internet enterprise Google. ...more

November 8, 2008

Market forces are great. Until they're not. After nearly three decades of conservatives insisting that government has no business meddling in the private sector, the Bush administration on Friday announced a sweeping plan to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars bailing out financial institutions that bet wrong on the mortgage market. ...more

September 23, 2008

Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years. ...more

August 22, 2008

Using electrical pulses to destroyed cancer cells while sparing surrounding tissue for collateral damage is in the early phase of human testing. ...more

August 20, 2008

Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus. ...more

August 13, 2008

NBC recently renewed its television contract with Notre Dame football through the 2015 season, betting the bank that the Irish, who have not won a national championship since 1988 or a bowl game since 1993, can consistently deliver television ratings that keep corporate sponsors happy and revenue streams flowing. ...more

July 29, 2008