Jeremy Bentham on scenario planning for crucial choices in uncertain times

Corporations and the public and private sectors use scenario planning to help inform decision-making. It's a way of looking at alternate possible futures.

Cellphone apps to track our health

Tanzeem Choudhury, a computer scientist, said that within a few years, we'll be able to capture information about our health just by using cellphone apps.

Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder?

A single blood protein, the Kell antigen, might be to blame both for the wives of Henry VIII many miscarriages and for his bizarre paranoid mid-life behavior.

Oldest known wild bird in U.S. became a mother again, and survived March 2011 tsunami

A Laysan albatross at Midway is the oldest known wild bird in the US. She recently became a mom at over 60 years of age - and survived the 2011 tsunami, too.

Ötzi the Iceman: See what he looked like

Reconstruction artists have given us a photo of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old body discovered locked in Alpine ice 20 years ago.

Space shuttle Discovery and it’s legacy

NASA talks about the legacy of space shuttle Discovery, piloting the mission that launched the Hubble Space telescope, and what's next for human spaceflight.

Forecast: Spring rains on Saturn’s moon

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found evidence of spring rains around the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Video of March 11, 2011 tsunami from ship at sea

The March 11, 2011 tsunami propagated outward from a 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake, just 43 miles from its nearest point to Japan.

Diluted radiation plume may reach California on Friday

The diluted radiation plume from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors might brush the Aleutian Islands today and sweep into southern California by late Friday.

MESSENGER becomes first craft to orbit Mercury

On Thursday, March 17, 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft will become the first space probe to enter orbit around the innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury.