One man is leading a mission to wipe out illiteracy in Nepal with low cost private education.

The answer to this question may depend on whether Stephen Hawking was right in his theory that describes how black holes shed mass and eventually decay.

Rocco Castoro heads out to Union Square to give strangers E-meter readings, determining their spiritual and moral fiber.

Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future?

The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind a riddle: an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on stone monuments and painted on pottery and bark books.

Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years.

The race is on to build robots for the consumer market. But are there consequences to co-existing with humanoid machines?

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a team of scientists is on a mission to save lives. They’re called “Virus Hunters” and it’s their job to find some of the most […]

They use 40% of the world’s energy, emit 50% of its greenhouse gases. “They” are not the cars we drive. “They” are the buildings where we work, live, and grow.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, but the “The Choice 2012,” goes far beyond the headlines on a journey […]

In Myanmar the Kachin people are fighting a life-or-death struggle for autonomy.

The video game industry is now bigger than Hollywood, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent developing these interactive experiences.

In Flipped Learning, students watch podcasts of their teacher’s lectures on their own time and then spend their time in the classroom applying what they learned at home.