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The accounts spread hashtags like #DemDebateSoWhite and #KamalaHarrisDestroyed.

This graph shows how badly German cities were hit by Allied bombing raids.

Some are worried this represents an Orwellian move. At heart, it's not.

The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.

A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.

Science, theology, and the divine creator as a verb.

In his latest book, Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen covers the first five hundreds years of American magical thinking. 

Shelby Harris explains what can go wrong when the safety mechanism that shuts down your body during dreaming fails.

From what we know about the young prince and actress, how does the future look for their relationship based on psychological studies of successful marriages?

Researchers at Queen Mary University have inched us closer toward an invisibility cloak, for starters.   

ABC News anchor Dan Harris recounts having a panic attack live on "Good Morning America." Harris went on to encounter a number of snake-oil-selling self-help gurus before he finally discovered the effectiveness of traditional Buddhist meditation. Harris is the author of 10% Happier.

Twitter is often asked to give up user information to government agencies and Twitter often complies. Not this time.

The scientific mindset, Steven Pinker argues, is "indispensable in all areas of human concern, including politics, the arts, and the search for meaning, purpose, and morality."

Nutritionists say kale—a vegetable in the Brassica family along with broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage—is full of vitamins and antioxidants that help to prevent cancer. 

Here is a statement that shouldn’t result in anyone being called racist: I think religion is a particularly harmful way of viewing the world, because it encourages irrational thought, groupthink, […]

Not content with publishing a fake newspaper, producing a fake news channel, and delivering the best satire on the Web to millions of genuine fans, the staff of The Onion […]

Dogs and other furry mammals shake to dry themselves off. Experimenters at the Georgia Institute of Technology calculated how fast an animal has to oscillate to overcome surface tension and throw water off its hairs.

The release of the eighth film in a series of books and movies marks the end of the epic Harry Potter story. The series has received deserved accolades and is […]

"After a federal appeals court struck down the FCC's regulations on indecency, network television will have license to depict more violence, use more profanity and get a whole lot sexier."

This spring in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]

9/11 sparked Harris’s interest in religion, and his journey to atheism.