To the relief of insect-fearing people everywhere, the world’s largest insect turns out to be happily vegetarian. Read on...

Every successful scientist seems to have a “once in a blue moon” discovery during his or her lifework: an accident or epiphany that unexpectedly leads to a serendipitous breakthrough. Geneticist Mary-Claire King has had four. Read on...

The February cover story of next month’s Scientific American (“Is Space Digital?”) reveals a series of experiments designed to test the holographic principle, a theory that has been at the heart of several mind-bending discussions here at the World Science Festival. Read on...

Earlier this month, friend of the Festival, preeminent geneticist, and all-around great human being, Eric Lander, was featured in the New York Times' “Profiles in Science” series. The piece unravels the fascinating path that took him from an early Ph.D. in pure math at Oxford, to a stint teaching at the Harvard business school, and eventually to the forefront of human genomics and medicine. Read on...

Recently, we have been unveiling new clips from the 2011 Festival's Longevity program, where the top researchers in the burgeoning field of gerontology have been tackling humanity's most exasperating problem: Mortality. Read on...

Congratulations on another trip around the Sun. This past year has been a big one here at worldsciencefestival.com. Maybe you noticed. We completely redesigned our website. We streamed the interactive WSF Live Forum to the entire world, and followed it up with a series during which co-founder Brian Greene attempted to answer just about anything you could throw at him. And, perhaps most significantly, we launched our new video platform. Here, you can find hundreds of short and full-program videos from the world's most brilliant and creative minds, all available for free streaming on your computer or mobile device. Read on...

This morning, the New York Times published an op-ed piece by WSF co-founder and theoretical physicist Brian Greene. In it, he explains the origins of the now famous Higgs boson, and Peter Higgs, who hypothesized its existence in 1964. Read on...

Earlier this morning, CERN made a much-anticipated announcement about its progress in finding the elusive Higgs particle. Here, Brian Greene explains the significance of the news. Read on...

You may have heard that this morning (Tuesday, AM) there was an announcement from researchers at the Large Hadron Collider. Read on...

What is your hypothesis on the future of the universe since it continues to expand at a fast rate? Read on...

By Molly Webster

Last night, I careened down the the subway stairs at 116th and Broadway only to run into WSF and NPR/Radiolab favorite Robert Krulwich at the bottom. He had in tow a be-spectacled young man with tight blonde curls and an easy smile. Read on...

Science Online NYC (SoNYC) is a new monthly series of eclectic panel discussions that focuses on science communication. Organized by Lou Woodley of Nature.com, John Timmer of Ars Technica, and Jeanne Garbarino in association with Rockefeller University, which hosts the event, SoNYC is the New York branch of Science Online, an annual conference organized by prolific blogger, editor, and WSF alum, Bora Zivkovic. Each month, a topic is picked and the SoNYC organizers gather a panel of experts for a lively discussion that often spills online via Twitter and other platforms. This month's topic is alliteratively titled "Matching Medium and Messengers to Meet the Masses," and features WSF's very own, editorial producer Molly Webster. Read on...