A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore the bewildering number and variety of energy transformations that make everyday conveniences possible. These are easy to take for ...

What do politicians' State of the Nation speeches actually tell us? Will cyber-terrorism or North Korea be the biggest threats to our security? How will a culturally diverse society hold together, and ...

A series of free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how the machines that physicists have built to understand matter on the smallest scales over the last century have found additional ...

City College on Friday, Oct. 18. The lectures, entitled “A Billion Suns: The Lives and Deaths of the Stars,” begin at 7 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first- serve basis. The lecture will also be ...

Taking a brief mind vacation? It's always a lovely thing, and allowed, and highly recommended, even if you're sitting on your couch. Or perhaps "especially" is the word here, as in "especially when ...

There’s always more to learn, and the Internet can help you gain knowledge without wasting a lot of time or money. The trick is to find interesting, engaging educational material and sneak it into ...

Making better decisions, getting to net zero, the dilemmas of local media and the importance of national security, not to mention vaccines, critical race theory and the greenhouse effect. These are ...

Two free public programs in Pasadena will offer an overview of the upcoming NASA mission to Pluto. Pluto is the only planet in our solar system not yet studied by a robotic explorer, but not for long.

Learning is a life-long process. Yet if you're someone who always loves learning or wants to pick up a new, specific skill, then cost might be a problem. However, there are lots of free website out ...

I OBSERVED in NATURE for February 19 (p. 367) a reference to the free lectures at Liverpool, and the inquiry, Why cannot the same thing be done in other large towns? It may interest your readers to ...