Tom Clynes

The tale of a teen physics prodigy

The acoustic innovator and founder of the Bose Corporation died Friday. This is the story of how his insatiable curiosity helped launch a better future.

Fun fact: When the music in a bar gets 22 percent louder, patrons drink 26 percent faster. But if the...

One robot isn't so smart, but get enough of them together and they can complete a complex mission.

Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks. How much worse can it get?

Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one

A Canadian researcher says she has debunked controversial claims that a microbe found in California's Mono Lake can replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic

Last December, Felisa Wolfe-Simon announced the discovery of a microbe that could change the way we understand life in the universe. Soon she found herself plunged into a maelstrom of bitter backlash and intemperate criticism. A dispatch from the frontiers of the new peer review

Arun Majumdar has to decide which researchers will get millions of dollars, and he has to do it fast. He must spark an energy revolution within 20 years, or it’s lights out for us all.

A new scientific project joins the race to explore lakes under Antarctic ice