When Artur Janc attempted to read “Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal” with his rudimentary Spanish in 2005, he grew so frustrated at constantly referring to a dictionary that he decided to perform some wizardry of his own.
Mr. Janc, then a Polish student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, created Lingro, a widgetlike online dictionary […]

Scientists in the US and India appear to have kicked back the age of a prominent feature in India – the Vindhyan Basin – by half a billion years. In the process, they may have removed one of the stumbling blocks to the so-called “snowball Earth” theory. The theory posits that Earth’s surface was covered […]

The moon’s interior may harbor water at concentrations higher than found on Earth. That’s the implication of measurements scientists have made on beads of volcanic glass in rocks that astronauts brought back during the Apollo moon missions.
The results, the team says, represent the first evidence that the moon had – and may still have – […]