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More and more business leaders are starting to lean on learning and development for support in facing essential challenges. 

If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.

A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.

Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

Your five-year-old can probably spot a cop-out.

The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?

There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.

George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.

Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical “proof” of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?

If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.

Blended learning reflects how people learn and develop naturally every day. Here’s how to put it into practice.

From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).

In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.

In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.

Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.

You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.

The new corporate landscape demands an approach to leadership based on empowering the “inner CEO.”

In the fight between head and heart, psychologists will win.

How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.