The life of the sister of philosopher Blaise Pascal is a monument to the struggle of women.

Light moves very slowly at Harvard. That’s because Prof. Lene Vestergaard Hau did what what Einstein himself would have had difficulty imagining: she harnessed light. The key to doing so was figuring out how to super-cool atoms so that they acted as if they were just one, dense, nebulous atom.

Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world.

Worthwhile InvestmentRe “Culture Shift,” by Archbishop Robert J. Carlson (1/7): I am happy to note Archbishop Carlson’s support for promoting a culture of vocations through Catholic schools, especially among the growing Hispanic population in our country. For the past two decades,

Last September a 73-year-old bird watcher in Central Park came upon a 42-year-old drifter who already had a police record of sexual attacks practicing solo sex in a wooded area and snapped his picture Nine days later he encountered her again demanded she destroy the picture and beat and raped he

The unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East

Until society’s obsession with individual rights is tempered, our nation will remain hostage to the gun lobby.

This morning Sister Pat Farrell OSF president of the Leadership Conference for Women Religious appeared on National Public Radio s Fresh Air with Terry Gross nbsp The full audio will be posted later in the day but some excerpts of this wide-ranging interview have already been posted on the