In Iron Man 2, industrialist Tony Stark needs to create a new element — so he builds a particle accelerator in his workshop. Is that really possible? The answer may surprise you. The palladium that powers Tony Stark’s arc reactor — and, by extension, his Iron Man exoskeleton suit — …

Forget the mile-high club. Who’s joined the million-mile high club? NASA has always been silent on the subject of sex in space — which makes people all the more curious. How would it work? Has anyone done it before? Can a child be conceived in zero-G? With few animal tests …

An environmental report issued by an agency of the United Nations last month has some critics sounding the alarm, saying it is a clarion call for “global governance” over how the Earth is managed. The report, “21 Issues for the 21st Century,” from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Foresight …

DAVOS, Switzerland – Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former head of general intelligence, was on a panel to assess the whole concept of globalization at the World Economic Forum here, but we sat down with him to talk very specifically about his region. “Two hundred dollars a barrel oil is …

Neither the Democratic nor the Republican campaign has focused on our future. We are living in calamitous and tumultuous times. Our economy, despite the recent rally in the stock market, is teetering on the brink of recession, unemployment remains unacceptably high– notwithstanding the drop to 8.6% unemployment last week. Structural …

Make no mistake. For the White House, the Iowa caucuses were a huge victory. Why? Because no clear frontrunner emerged, and the data shows that Mitt Romney at the very least is a very vulnerable winner. Romney got traditional, upscale, suburban, moderately conservative Republican voters. He did not do particularly …

If an environmentalist—and I am one—tells you that the sky is falling because of Monday’s Supreme Court decision about the Clean Air Act, don’t believe it. In an opinion authored by Justice Scalia, the Court Monday held that the Environmental Protection Agency unreasonably failed to consider the costs of an …

The worst case scenario has happened. The Obama administration has signed a deal with Iran — a deal that failed to secure the freedom of American Pastor Saeed Abedini and other Americans who remain imprisoned in Iran. It is unconscionable that the United States would ink a deal and leave …

President Obama’s START Treaty is in trouble, and with every hour that passes it gets further away from ratification by this Congress. Time is running out, yet the president seems reluctant to answer his critics with anything more than non-binding words. At this point, he should take the Treaty off …

Iranian President Rouhani took to Twitter Tuesday with the sobering message that world powers have “surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.” Iran’s leader is referring to the brand new nuclear agreement that was announced in Geneva this week. But hold on. Is this the same agreement that President Obama and Secretary …