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Under just the right conditions-which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator-it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan researchers.

"Science-Driven Innovation. We're responsible for big inventions-and our goal is nothing short of inventing the future of the Internet."

Researchers at Fermilab are building a "holometer" so they can disprove everything you thought you knew about the universe. More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn't exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram. To do so, they are building the most precise clock ever created.

It's that time of the month again. Yes: it's time for Life-form of the Month. In case you've forgotten, this coming Saturday is International Day for Biological Diversity, a day of celebrations and parties to appreciate the other occupants of the planet. So if you do nothing else this weekend, drink a toast to "Other Life-forms!" In honor of this event, my nomination for Life-form of the Month: May is a group of abundant and fascinating beings that are undeservedly obscure: the archaea.

There was a time, when people knew nothing about farming or insecticides and the pesticides. People are now trying to go organic and finding natural ways and natural things, these days, so those who are all for the natural way of living, Natural farming is your thing.

We make decisions every day based on the visible world around us. Yet much of our lives is shaped by what we can't see. Jessica Green wants people to see the important role microbes, ecology and evolution play in every facet of our lives. "Touring a building with Jessica Green can be an unsettling experience. "We live nearly 90 percent of our lives indoors, but we know almost nothing about that environment.""

New experiments have revealed tantalizing evidence that sterile neutrinos are not only real but common. Some of them could even be the stuff of the mysterious dark matter astronomers have puzzled over for decades.