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NANTES, France--Knock, knock. That's not the start of a joke but the hard-luck history of Uranus. New research suggests that the giant planet may have suffered two massive impacts early in its history, which would account for its extreme, mysterious axial tilt.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero. In 1999 one of Jobs's friends said, "He is single-minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of excellence." That's certainly a character trait we scientists can admire. Let's take a look at another one of Job's traits that we scientists can benefit from emulating.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero. In 1999 one of Jobs's friends said, "He is single-minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of excellence." That's certainly a character trait we scientists can admire

Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania.

The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting another brutally cold and snowy winter for a large part of the country, thanks in large part to La Ni

Michael Hawley, MIT and former colleague at NeXT: Honestly, Steve was like the older brother I never had.

GPS is utterly useless for finding your wife or kids (or even locating yourself) at the mall. What we need is an indoor equivalent of GPS

In the spring of 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University . It had been a year since he had first been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

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For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling. The trend holds true wherever researchers look--in poor countries or rich ones, in Europe, Asia or the Americas--but two notable exceptions stand out.

Credit: Wikipedia/NASA NANTES, France--Makemake may well have the most exotic name of the dwarf planets, and it now looks to be just as unusual on its surface. [More]

Last week a few of my twitter pals and I had a conversation about how we are proud to describe ourselves as ‘crazy’ and ‘ridiculous’. Sparked by Mark Changizi’s article at the Huffington Post on ‘What to do about all the crazy, ridiculous research ‘ out there, the general consensus was that sometimes what seem to be the most outlandish ideas are the ones that lead to the biggest advancements in science and elsewhere.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple , died Wednesday at age 56. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Jobs had been battling cancer for at least 6 years, telling his employees in 2004 that he was being treated for the disease, and undergoing a l iver transplant in 2009.