Earth-bound high school students will compete to program robotic spheres to fly around inside the International Space Station. Continue reading →

Did a Florida woman really lose $590 million by letting a stranger ahead of her in the lottery line? Continue reading →

Affordable tech automatically animates paper creations, no puppetry skills required. Continue reading →

As the TED conferences expand, some question whether standards are slipping. ->

Zora Ball is a first-grader who's already programming video games. ->

South African explorer Mike Horn faces a surprising conundrum: Three years into his Pangaea Project, a four-year round-the-world expedition that promises to chisel young adventurers into global ambassadors for the planet, he is still receiving a dearth of U.S. applicants. The news is a little confo...

At MIT, not only do students get a world-class education, but they can also get pirate certified. For the past 20 years, students who have completed classes in pistol, archery, sailing and fencing are considered pirates. MIT decided to make it official. Last fall, the inaugural certificate program ...

A closer look at the advertising campaign for the new film "Bully" reveals both commercialism and activism.