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Bombs away! Scientific American Editor George Musser and his daughter Eliana simulate a meteor shower using nuts, cake mix and common kitchen items.

Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy, was social media before social media existed. Today she’s launching xoJane.com , her answer to Sassy for a constantly connected generation. Sassy, the cool girl’s anti-glossy--whose winking, edgy-for-a-teen-mag coverlines (Long-Distance Romance: Sucky Or Not?; Do You Need Armpit Hair To Be a Feminist?) could easily be Twitterbait 20 years later--created the voice that informed a thousand snark-filled blogs

Chaz Bono (originally born Chastitiy, the daughter of Sonny and Cher) has a new book out, "Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man" and a new documentary, "Becoming Chaz," on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

My mother always says there are problems, and then there are troubles.

As the world of video games continues to evolve, so too should our expectations of how games will positively influence how we work, learn, and live, both online and offline. In a recent blog post , Nicholas Carr, author of the critically acclaimed book The Shallows , reviewed some of the latest studies on the cognitive effects of video games.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Is the "check in" nearly dead

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It (University of California Press, April 4, 2011). Elena Githeko was normally energetic and chatty. But on a Tuesday morning in 2003, Elena's mother, Anne Mwangi, found her daughter quiet and listless, her forehead warm with fever

When we hear the word "inventor," we think of people like Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers. Some of the coolest inventors, though, are people you probably don't know. They didn't invent planes or light bulbs; these people created products used so often, you probably didn't even realize they were inventions

The founder of the Web message board 4Chan took the stage at SXSW to explain how his new project, Canvas, could far exceed 4Chan's 12-million-user popularity with Facebook-friendly appeal. Like your daughter bringing home an ex-convict for dinner and saying that he's actually a "really good guy," Christopher "moot" Poole explained how the virtue of 4Chan--instantaneous collaborative creativity--could overshadow its darker, dirtier proclivities by gaining new life in a project called Canvas .

Different branches of science have played famous roles in lots of movies. But one category is often overlooked: sources of energy, even though the plots and turning points of major movies have hinged on just that. How likely is the potential nuclear reactor meltdown in China Syndrome (Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon)