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Rebecca Jarvis speaks with Dr. David Langer about "brain freeze, or a moment when you just can't recall something important -- like the one Rick Perry had in a GOP debate -- and how to avoid it.

In the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. There is not one universe--there is a multiverse.

So you may have noticed an elephant in the room--more specifically, an elephantine abstraction that began appearing on our Web site today, like the one outside the margin at the left. That's an Ellie, a stabile designed by Alexander Calder and bestowed by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME).

Mythology, science fiction, and comic books are chock full of stories of heroes and their battles against the ills of society, the eternal struggle between good and evil.

Will seismologists ever be able to reliably predict the exact location, time and magnitude of earthquakes like the one that just devastated Japan and sent tsunamis racing across the Pacific Ocean? If so, they might be able to save many lives.