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The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has riveted international attention on the threat of nuclear weapons . Kim was widely reported to have been pursuing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles to deliver them, and he presided over a pair of nuclear bomb blast tests (confirmed by seismograph)

What can you learn from 2011 to position yourself for 2012? Use this tool to run the numbers.

Click here for Part Two: Carl Zimmer Delves Beneath the Surface of Science Writing

Click here for Part Two: Carl Zimmer Delves Beneath the Surface of Science Writing

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count.

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years,” as the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln goes. Although we humans have never been satisfied with the biblical allotment of threescore and ten, neither do we want to extend our life span only to pass the time in a decrepit state

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia announced a $300 million investment in Twitter today. Alwaleed is one of several mega-investors to have pumped serious cash into Twitter in 2011; however, there are fears Alwaleed will censor Twitter

By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine The U.S. [More]

By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine The U.S. [More]

North Korea appears as a sea of darkness in this famous photograph. The capital city Pyongyang registers as the sole blip of light. [More]

North Korea appears as a sea of darkness in this famous photograph.

Tis the season for giving back.

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large. But as interesting as Kim himself was as a world leader, it is the society that surrounded him that has always captured my attention

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large.

What was up with a world leader who thought he could control the weather while engaging in his passion for Elizabeth Taylor movies? No one knows for sure, but a few years ago, two psychologists took a crack at a long-distance analysis.