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How do great people get so much done? If you’re Ben Franklin, you lay out a detailed schedule.

Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?

Some scientists feel that the attacks on U.S. embassy workers in Cuba and China were carried out by secret microwave weapons. Others think that’s just silly.

A historical look into the tipple that toppled the British Empire and kick-started America.

Everything you wanted to know about black holes, supernova, and quasars but were afraid to ask.

The latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics reveal a rise in workplace fatalities, including how people are dying, and where they’re dying.

There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you’ve […]

Caffeine is consumed by some 90% of Americans every day, but not everyone is getting the most of its stimulating effects.

Consciousness is body-dependent. VR enthusiasts are betting otherwise.

Humans have way more than five senses, and if you include the animal kingdom there even more still.

Infographics present the latest NHTSA statistics on the likelihood of having a fatal accident while commuting to and from work.

After a 16 year wait, the star SO-2 will speed past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole at 2.5% the speed of light. It will be the first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s […]

Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.

Our Universe is full of surprises. This latest one, AT2018cow, has ignited a controversy between astronomers. The Universe is an ever-changing place, particularly if you look at it on long-enough […]

South Africa is no longer the only place on the continent that has urban wealth clusters

The idea is to flood the markets and drive prices down. Contrary to what you may think, a rhino horn is not made of bone but of keratin – the material found in nails and hair.

You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?

In the search for the youngest planet in the Universe, astronomers may have accidentally stumbled upon something entirely new. Growing up is hard to do in the Universe. In the great […]

What explains our propensity to blame the victim, even in cases of sexual assault and rape? A true story of sexual crime in America reveals some key misunderstandings we may all hold. 

The ‘giant impact’ that led to Earth might not have been so giant, after all. A little over 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System began to form. Somewhere in the […]

China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.

In the earliest stages of the Universe, before there were protons or neutrons, we had a quark-gluon plasma. The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and […]

A new experimental program in New Jersey offered treatment, not stigma, to low-level drug offenders arrested during one week in June—and the results are encouraging.

The popular sleep drug Ambien, which Rosanne Barr appears to have taken recreationally, can dredge up what you already have in your brain.

Let kids be kids. Watching over your children’s every move is a bad idea, and the long-term effects of helicopter parenting are far worse than thought.

Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?

Get ready for images projected in mid-air to start appearing in the next few years. 

Scientists figure out why so many people believe in conspiracy theories.

Soccer is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that. And the FIFA World Cup even more so.

Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?