Chris Parker

Our health is our most precious resource, yet our health-care system’s more adept at mining wallets than making us healthy. We pay one-and-a-half to two times what other countries pay for health care without appreciably better outcomes.  Amer...

Arizona State University will celebrate the centennial of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity on Friday. Meanwhile across the country, scientists are analyzing data attempting to prove the existence of gravitational waves, the last, mos...

Since its 1998 peak, the music industry has been tanking. Global revenue from recorded music has halved from nearly $30 billion before leveling off to about $15 billion in the past few years. In the United States, recorded-music revenue suffered a...

Many of us stared at the star-besotted sky as children and wondered how long it would take to count all those pinpricks of light. The answer is 10 years, once the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins its count in 2022. Construction began in Octo...

It hasn't been a very happy holiday season for Sony Pictures, which was hacked recently and had sensitive internal files compromised. Five movies -- four of them unreleased -- were leaked along with 11 terabytes of personal data, including executi...