Obama sees Detroit school projects at science fair

Two Detroit school science projects attracted the attention of President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Mercer Island student's video game earns White House visit

13-year-old Jasper Hugunin, of Mercer Island, participated in Tuesday's White House science fair, where he showed off a computer game he had created. It was part of the Obama administration's effort to lift American students' performance in math and science.

Subatomic Inferno Under the Alps: A Tour of the Large Hadron Collider

GENEVA — The elevator buttons in front of me, hand-labeled in black marker, speak volumes: "Sky," says one, the other, "Hell." Sky is the Swiss-French border, pastoral Geneva countryside in the shadow of soaring Alpine mountains.

Photonics Innovators Honored With Prism Awards

Winners of the 2011 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation were announced at a gala banquet last night (25 January) during SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.

The Best International Airports For Layovers

For business or for pleasure, there’s nothing like international travel to expand your cultural horizons. Nor is there anything quite as soul constricting as spending hours trapped in a foreign airport with hours to kill before your flight. During our travels across the globe, we’ve found these five fantastic airports with amenities so great you might even show up for your next flight a little ...