Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov searches for Earthlike planets that may answer questions about the origin of life elsewhere.
What do Copernicus and a Britney Spears look-a-like have in common? Despite centuries separating the two, both have inspired greatness in Poland.
Curt Schilling, the split-finger fastballer from Boston with a penchant for honoring superstitions, playing through pain, and winning, says he intends to play only one more year of baseball. "I'm done. This is my final year," Schilling told a handful of journalists he'd invited to his top-floor suite in Caesar's Palace during this week's CES trade show.
A musical look at the opening day of the International Consumer Electronics Show.
At Padua's Piazza delle Erbe, the market is closed, the merchants are gone and shadows have replaced harsh sunlight. As if waiting to reclaim their square, students spill out of colorful bars -- drinks in hand. Clustered around tall but tiny round tables that tip on the big, rough cobbles, they sip their drinks and dip bread in shallow dishes of plush olive oil. Their drink of choice is a spritz, an aperitif made with two bitter alcoholic liqueurs (Campari and Cynar), white wine, and sparkling water, garnished with an olive and a red wedge of blood orange.
Something about Hastings...the French fighting the English for some reason...and then a couple of Italians figured out how to paint in three dimensions...and then there was some guy who discovered ...
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