Physicist Brian Cox played in a band that recorded what became the anthem of Britain’s Labour Party. Now he’s about to simulate the big bang at CERN’s super collider. A Wired.com Q&A from the TED conference in Monterey, California.
Selling high-schoolers on engineering careers — and by natural extension, math and science courses — can be as difficult as convincing them of the virtues of abstinence and not dancing too closely at the prom.
If there were any doubts that the United States is preparing for war in space and cyberspace, testimony before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee last week would have wiped them away.
T.J. Bateman had never heard of JuicyCampus.com until a friend told him he had been discussed on the Web site, which urges college students nationwide to “give us the juice.” Someone wrote, anonymously, that Bateman, a senior at the University of Virginia, is a “pretty cool dude, but I hear he is…
Once upon a time, tech pundits predicted Sony’s PlayStation Portable would be an “iPod killer” because of all its flashy features. But the PSP has suffered from a slightly unfortunate image among gamers and gadget lovers: It’s the device that can do pretty much anything, from surfing the Web to p…
