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Missed the illuminating talk on dark energy? Uncertain about certainty

Timothy Ray Brown learned he had AIDS in 1995 but following treatment shows no evidence of disease

It has been written that: "At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." So what can this week's crop of mechanistic marvels tell us about ourselves? Juggling robots Juggling is surely a human-only art

Editor's Note: The following blog post first appeared May 17 on the World Science Festival's web site.

Black market for organs thrives in China, with more than one million needing organs every year

We spend a third of our lives asleep.

U.N. report praises progress on treatment and prevention, but urges more funding for early intervention

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine A team of physicists is claiming to have coaxed sparks from the vacuum of empty space. [More]

Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched.

In X-Men: First Class , the latest film about the popular comic book superheroes, one of the mutant characters goes by the nickname Darwin because he has the power of “reactive evolution.” He instantly adapts to any threat: toss him in water and he sprouts gills; hit him with a club and his skin turns to armored plates. Biology mavens in the audience may object that this form of evolution is more or less the opposite of what Charles Darwin proposed with his theory of natural selection

Dear EarthTalk : Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act?

Four days after qualifying for his first U.S. Open, Alexander Noren overcame windy conditions to shoot a 4-under 67 Friday and lead defending champion Graeme McDowell by one stroke after the second round of the Wales Open.

You never know for sure what someone is thinking - but here are warning signs thoughts may be suicidal

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. MI6 Punks Al Qaeda With Cupcakes There's going to be a lot of frowns in the delicious smelling kitchens of

In what's becoming a predictable move, Syria has shut down Internet access in an attempt to quash the organization of a national uprising, dubbed Children's Friday and inspired in part by a now viral YouTube video of the body of a tortured and murdered 13-year-old boy . As reported by Renesys , a business communications intelligence firm that also chronicled the Net shut-down in Egypt , Syria began to shut its Net access at 6:35 a.m