Okay, it's not quite Doogie Howser or The Kid With The 200 I.Q., but it is real: Zachary Young, a 15-year-old sophomore at Stuyvesant High School, was accepted to Harvard, MIT and Caltech. He tells the Post that when he got the nod from MIT, "That was much more exciting [than Caltech's acceptance]. I had my mom, my sisters and my girlfriend, and they all screamed." (Yes, he has a girlfriend!) Zach, a huge math whiz who has already taken all of Stuy's math and science classes, doesn't watch TV or listen to music, "If I have a choice between math and almost anything else, I choose math." Maybe he won't have that girlfriend for long. more ›

Holy moly, the sacred tenent from our childhood science classes, "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles," must be revised to something like "My Very Evasive Mouse Just Scared Us Now" as the International Astronomical Union has officially decided that Pluto in not a planet. They took a vote and everything! From the AP:

For now, membership [of the planets] will be restricted to the eight ''classical'' planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. more ›