From video games to cell phone apps, people are making sign language easier to learn.

Researchers study ants and their complex, productive societies to help address some of human society's most pressing challenges.

Video: Getting enough shut-eye really matters for children, and those who are poor need it the most.

Team at Seattle university is creating largest 3-D reconstruction that anyone has ever attempted, rebuilding the world one pixel at a time.

Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world.

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Video: Team of chemical engineers from Austin are creating solar cells that are light, flexible, efficient and affordable.

Video: Observing a split in the butterfly family tree.

Find out when it's best to shell out your cash in exchange for tickets.

Video: Music can spark creativity in math and science.

These robotic labs, called ESPs, collect water samples in the open water and can determine if a beach is safe for swimming or water is clean enough to drink

Video: The best animators know that physics will make their animation more lifelike.

Video: Teams from the Disaster Research Center (DRC) go to devastated locations to learn more about how lives may be saved in the future.

Video: Aerial surveillance cameras in some stores track our shopping behavior and help retailers determine what to sell and how to position it.

Video: When we use water, much of it must undergo energy-intensive cleaning at a treatment plant before flowing back to the environment. Microbial fuel cells ma

Fascinating research focuses on aerial feats of the dragonfly such as hunting and the impressive act of mating in mid-air.

Locked-in syndrome, often the result of injury or illness (such as Lou Gehrig's), causes complete paralysis. With advanced technology, these people get closer t

OK, I admit. Maybe there's no such thing as climate change. Maybe it's all a hoax. Maybe.

Humanity is often at its worst and wackiest in our search for water. Peter Dykstra on a free-flowing font of bad ideas.

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You'll never guess who's fighting to stop the construction of a wind farm off the shores of Cape Cod. Environmentalists.

Obama is an agent of change. Or at least he's supposed to be. Peter Dykstra grades six areas of the Obama presidency.

The mainstream media is ignoring the most important side of the BP oil leak story- the incredible suffering of Tony Hayward, the CEO of British Petroleum. Could

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The head of the Catholic Church recently said 'Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.'

From the birth of Jesus in a manger to the Star of Bethlehem, the details of the Nativity story show up in Christmas pageants and storefront windows everywhere.

An ancient, two-sided amulet uncovered in Cyprus contains a 59-letter inscription that reads the same backward as it does forward.

The 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge encourages you to tackle one area of clutter in your home each day and get rid of it responsibly.

A Chinese statue of a Buddha has revealed a hidden surprise: The mummified remains of a monk who lived nearly 1,000 years ago.

Five years in the making, the film takes audiences on an interfaith journey through one of the world's 'most storied' cities.

How have Easter's ancient paganist roots manifested in this modern Christian celebration?

Roughly a third of all scanned mummies contained no body inside.

To broaden support for space exploration, advocates should consider approaching religious groups.

Metaphysical services are disappearing from the online marketplace faster than you can say 'I bind you, Etsy, from doing harm ...'

Here are a few of the most popular Buddhist holidays explained.

Experts are divided on the power of spirituality and an upbeat mindset.

A controversial move by a church in Georgia has people asking "Can you do that?"

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Around 180 laypeople help the sisters keep up their round-the-clock prayer vigil.

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Reconnect with the wild in these magic Celtic gardens.

The spells are written in a mysterious language, but a few names of demons could be deciphered.

When the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu get together to share wisdom, we should all stop to listen.

Modern-day Lebanese are descendants of the Canaanites, proving that they weren't wiped out by the Israelites after all.

The Bats and Churches Partnership aims to ease the sometimes fraught relationship between bats and the houses of worship they roost in.

Archaeologists conducting digital surveys below the surface of St. Nicholas Church have discovered an untouched temple.

Pope Francis' cows play a key role in a centuries-old restoration technique used on Vatican City's Belvedere Palace.

The Swedish ritual of Årsgång or "year walk" is said to reveal visions of the future — if you can complete the requirements.

Mennonites and Amish workers have been on the ground in Texas since August and continue to assist in rebuilding efforts.

From healthier lifestyles to lots of volunteering, people with religion live longer than those without.