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Billionaire Peter Thiel is the secret money behind Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit and why it matters.

Ad blockers have given consumers a bargaining chip; let’s not waste it.

Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.

A lay explanation of what brainwaves actually are.

Why universities can no longer afford to access the research they created themselves.

Many people are quite sure of what’s needed after a tragedy, yet there is a lot of disagreement. How can this be? It’s all about how the brain can form widely different opinions inside different people.

Just hearing two languages helps babies develop cognitive skills before they even speak. Here’s how – and how you can help them develop those skills.

The Achilles heel of AI is an inability to discriminate between sources of knowledge that are trustworthy and those that are deceitful and manipulative.

Now that it’s seen gravitational waves, could physics beyond Einstein be its next target? This post is written by Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity & high energy […]

Thanks to modern brain imaging technology, researchers have been able to discover how memory works, and how to manipulate it. 

Fossil fuels could be phased-out in 10 years, according to a study done by Professor Benjamin Sovacool. History shows us strong government support coupled with a shift in consumer preferences driven by incentives will help us get there faster.

Looking into the great, dark unknown was a mystery for thousands of years. No longer! “Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a […]

A new study suggests that news reports of extreme weather build a dangerous tolerance for risk-taking.

The similarities between the Universe and a living being are striking and surprising. Could larger entities than us be alive? “Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to […]

The strongest pull for hundreds of millions of light years goes toe-to-toe against the most energetic force of all. “We detect motion along this axis, but right now our data cannot […]

Don’t be afraid of making decisions, says entrepreneur Scott Belsky. Decisiveness — even when the decisions aren’t the “right” ones — is a sign of a true leader.

From MySpace and Hi5 to Facebook and Twitter, our relationship with social media has evolved over the past 15 years. Unfortunately, this may have led to the loss of curiosity and the devolution of our bonds with the people these platforms were built to connect us with, beyond the boundaries of time and space.     

The rise of ransomware is forcing us to reevaluate our approach to negotiating with criminals.

They don’t look like our other spherical maps we’re used to seeing. So what’s actually going on? “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum […]

The tale of a young man driven to his death for fighting for what is right, and the young woman picking up where he left off.

In times of emergency, many of us reach for our phones. They are vital to the safety and security of our families, friends, and colleagues.

The detection of a second binary black hole merger officially begins the robust era of a new kind of astronomy. “It turned out that nature was very kind, and there […]

Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing

The Universe may be truly infinite, but our understanding of it never will be. Here’s why. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not […]

A group of researchers from MIT has thought of what the next anonymous network might look like.

Could finding a planet capable of supporting humans already be within our reach? “The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so vast and the treasures hidden in the heavens so […]

Hello Barbie, the new interactive doll from Mattel, has some security flaws. As the Internet of Things becomes a reality, manufacturers must make security a priority.

Technology companies are under pressure to remove violent, terrorist content from their sites. Who should decide what gets removed?

Your brain is the neural battleground of science and religion, with religious people and atheists differing in intelligence and empathy.  Can the two extremes reconcile?

An estimated 10 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to the Internet. Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is trying to find a way to bring isolated communities online, but in order to do so, it needs to know where they live.