#171572331 / gettyimages.com Insight from Esther Inglis-Arkell: Going with the herd makes us feel safe, but herd behavior can go very wrong. It’s not just crowds panicking and trampling. Enough of a crowd, and enough familiarity, will let smart people make exactly the wrong choice…. When the energy of the crowd heats up, or when…

Even if one forgets one’s glasses, it’s possible to read a few words of small print through a simple technique. It’s not magic, it’s science:

We’ve sent advanced probes to the outer solar system, but there are still new, surprising discoveries to be made. One of those discoveries is described in the video below, where astronomers learned that even asteroids can have their own ring systems.

(21 July 2013) Storm clouds over Southern California. Early morning lightning can be seen as a white blotch just to the right of center. The yellow colored area, beneath the grey clouds, which almost shines because of night lights, is part of the highly populated area of Los Angeles and San Diego.