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When we fail to help in a bad situation, we are morally responsible. So, why don’t we pick up others’ litter?

The very concept of a “problem with no solution” goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.

Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.

Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?

GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.

Cars are no longer just a way to get from A to B.

It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.

The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.

The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.

According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.

When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn’t happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.

Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don’t some consider it philosophy?

Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.

Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

There are plenty of alternatives to spending a fortune on employee training programs. These 10 options are a great place to start.

This female-founded brand made Forbes 30 Under 30 list this year for its diverse, authentic, and affordable stock photography.

Did America’s collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?

Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.

The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.

The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.

Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.

As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.

Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?

Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.

Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?