Throughout history, philosophers, teachers and religious leaders have used stories and parables to help us understand intangible, often complex, concepts. One of my favorites is the Indian parable of ...

So the common response on how to handle big problems has always been the old adage of how to eat an elephant – one bite at a time. For most problems (and I presume, pachyderm gastronomes too) this ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along the edges ...

A telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed views ever of odd clouds of interstellar dust that are being sculpted into strange shapes by the wind from nearby stars. Astronomers used the ...

It always happens with new technology. People can't quite get their heads around it, so they latch on to some feature or another and assume they've understood the whole thing — a modern replay of the ...