A list of facts about the top 10 movies that you might or might not have known.
As the nation remembered the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday on Monday, the King Center in Atlanta has published 200,000 never-seen-before personal documents by or about the King on its website.
The discovery of quasicrystals in the early 1980s won Daniel Schechtman the Nobel Prize in October and scientists found the first natural quasicrystal in 2009, but it wasn't until January that scientists announced the where the rare substance occurs in nature.
The biggest mystery in the universe perplexing one of the world's best known scientists is -- women.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born U.S. citizen whose work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will be knighted in UK, media reports said.
President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.
President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has confirmed that scientists have come closer than ever to detecting the elusive Higgs boson or God particle that confers mass on matter.
An exploding star discovered just hours after it exploded has provided key information for understanding how the universe expands and what kinds of stars create certain types of supernovae. Published in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Nature, two new studies have used data from the Hubble telescope to pin down what kind of star could have caused the August, 11 2011 supernova seen in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy.
"We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that," a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station on Tuesday.
It has been called the brick that built the universe, the angel of creation and the god particle.
It has been called the brick that built the universe, the angel of creation and the god particle.
Scientists predicted this weekend that sighting of the first strong signs of a particle vital to support Einstein's ideas on the working of the universe will be reported Tuesday by the CERN physics research center.
The wife of Nobel prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa describes the loneliness and domestic grind she faced as her husband rose to power in a frank biography that is causing a stir in the country even before its official release.
The group is also urging that governments and courts treat drug addiction as a “medical” problem, instead of a criminal violation.
By Thanksgiving, the number of young people on Long Island charged with cheating on their college board exams is expected to reach 13, with at least five more arrests on tap, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.
A previously unknown manuscript by Bengali poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore is expected to fetch up to $250,000 when it is auctioned next month in New York.
A rare notebook, unheard of before, belonging to Nobel Laureate and Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore will be auctioned in December in New York.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said it may take similar skills to navigate Washington politics as it does to make advances in physics research, a field in which he won a Nobel Prize in 1997.
To win the Nobel Prize takes scientists years longer than a century ago.
Google paid tribute to Noble Prize winning scientist Marie Curie on her 144th birth anniversary Monday, with a doodle of her sitting in her laboratory on the search engine's homepage.
French banks Credit Agricole, Societe Generale and BNP Paribas --all of which are believed to be heavily exposed to Greek debt-- are down more than 10 percent.
