Science
Large Hadron Collider Shutting Down For Two Years
Long Shutdown 1, for maintenance
2012 DA14 Will Avoid Impact With Earth
Will miss by 17,150 miles, closer than many satellites
Meteor Shower Injures Hundreds in Central Russia
Shockwave shattered glass and shook buildings
New Research Brings Dinosaur Extinction and Suspected Asteroid Impact to Within 33,000 Years of Each Other
About as close as modern technology will allow
Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?
Experts manufacture whatever facts an activist, politician, or bureaucrat needs.
Harvard Gets $100 Million to Study Why Football Players Die Earlier Than Other Men
Being hit repeatedly in the head over a career might have something to do with it
Are Republican and Democratic Brains Different?
A new study concludes that everyone uses reason to persuade, not to find truth.
Government Retiring Research Chimps
Use of chimps for research falling out of fashion
NASA Thinking of Pulling Asteroid into Moon's Orbit
Would cost $2.6 billion and take at least six years for a spacecraft to capture and deliver an asteroid
First Virgin Galactic Flight Expected This Year
Seats for the edge-of-space flight are going for over $200,000 each
Writing About Robots: Good and Bad
Automation is good, unless the thing you're automating shouldn't be done in the first place.
U.S. Military Should be Ready for "Mutant" Warfare, Say Researchers
Could cause headaches down the road
Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
Breakthrough in Work on What Makes People Gay
Research suggests trait comes from opposite-sex parents
