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Futurist Ray Kurzweil notes that solar power has been doubling every two years for the past 30 years....... He says solar energy is only six doublings — or less than 14 years — away from meeting 100 percent of today’s energy needs."

The celebration of Karel Appel continues.

Everyone loves D, the sunshine vitamin. Doctors, patients and the media have been enamoured with vitamin D supplements for decades.

Apple Pay was launched last year, with lots of fanfare and support by the credit-card industry.  Partnering with the banks that issue credit cards overcame the resistance that early entrants in mobile payments had faced.  It also solved critical technology and infrastructure problems and offered

Speaking at a Catholic high school in New Orleans recently, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that there is "no place" in the

AIX-EN-PROVENCE – Richard Dawkins is one of the great minds of our time; yet in his just-published memoir, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, he notes that great minds often err w

In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd.

Donald Trump may be to the Republican Party what 

The Australian federal court has accused R

A previously discredited evolutionary theory, called Lamarckism, is being revived thanks to a new understanding of heredity called “epigenetic inheritance”.

A report released today by the

For almost all of our species’ 200,000-year history, man’s relationship with the Earth was no different to that of any other animal. All their energy was provided directly by the sun.

".....it is time to step away from the status quo of a pill for every ill."

With the food system accounting for up to a third of global gre