This strange little app contains 400 questions of varying philosophical value and only gives you 140 characters with which to answer them. The idea is to let you browse through other people’s ...

Time now for short answers to big questions. A while back, we asked you to challenge astrophysicist and NPR blogger Adam Frank with your questions about physics, astronomy or science in general. You ...

All Things Considered asked listeners to ask our resident astrophysicist big questions, so we can give you short answers. Today we explore magnetic fields and explain why they are so powerful on Earth ...

Writers and consultants tend to provide long answers. After all, comprehensiveness is safer: Short answers usually are reductionistic or don’t account for less-standard situations. Also, writers and ...

Excelling in competitive exams requires savvy approaches, particularly for essay-style queries. Crafting a compelling ...

British physicist Stephen Hawking is to make a "virtual appearance" at the Origins Symposium, presented by Arizona State University. How did the universe begin? How did life arise? How did evolution ...