Film Festival Roundup: Santa Barbara and Palm Springs Celebrate ‘La La Land,’ Sundance London Announces Dates

The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present the film “La La Land” with the Vanguard Award at its annual Film Awards Gala. The ...

Stars Pose For 2017 Hear The World Calendar

“As women, there is a bond we all share,” Amal Clooney told a sold-out audience at the 17th Annual Texas Conference for Women at the Austin Convention Center. &...

The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for...

These Exoskeletons, Rovers, And Mantis Robots Are The Future Of German Robotics

Researchers based at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have been busy lately, judging by their latest glut of futuristic video content. Seemingl...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Women A Focus Of 14th SF South Asian Film Festival

3rd i: Gender issues and a celebration of women are a focus of the 14th San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond, a.k.a. 3rd i. It begins...

Treating Alzheimer's May Start With Testing Cannabinoids On Football Players

Neuroscientists are currently developing drugs derived from cannabidiol, one of the primary active compounds in cannabis, to treat chronic pain caused by brain injuries lik...

Poverty, Not Race, Increases A Woman's Risk Of Unintended Pregnancy

Certain demographics are more likely to have unintended pregnancies than others, but while some reports point to racial differences among women who have unplanned pregnanci...

FACTBOX-A Century After Arrest Of Birth-Control Pioneer, Contraception At A Glance

Wednesday marks 100 years since contraception pioneer Margaret Sanger was arrested for running the first birth-control clinic in the United States. Convicted of p...