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Research has shown that drugs dogs routinely act based on the behavioral cues of their handlers, rather than acting on their sense of smell, raising important questions about the Fourth Amendment rights of anyone subject to search based on their actions.

Late night has become uninteresting and often unfunny, but all of that may change with the help of Stephen Colbert.

Hayek viewed markets as distributed-intelligence systems that evolved to compute resource allocations. We can now update that view with ideas from computer science, biological signalling, and evolution.

Couldn’t we just get all the nutrients we need from food?

The fantasies, institutions, and humans at Dismaland do not merely sometimes fail us — they are marked for death from the start.

In the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, surprised many with a performance that seemed to rescue the concept of “compassionate conservatism” from […]

An influx of humans into any environment can mean trouble for the local animal population.

Our observable Universe is finite, and so is the amount of information in it. Here’s what we may never know. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really […]

For art history, August 21 and 22 are the dates that will live in infamy. In some strange nexus of negative karma stretching over nearly a century, three of the greatest art heists of all time took place on these dates.

There’s a very curious link between topography and personality.

Disagreement helps prevent a company from becoming stale and succumbing to groupthink.

Gene Roddenberry would have celebrated his 95th birthday today. Many of his ideas have become reality, but some never will. “‘Star Trek’ says that it has not all happened, it […]

The hurdles in life presented by traumatic experiences, if treated properly, represent opportunities for momentous personal growth.

Experts say hovering parents set our kids up for failure — but why is that, and what can we do to change?

Hallucinations and distortions in reality ensue — no drugs required.

With the amount of destruction we’re causing, is it time we curbed our own population?

In a study that challenges conventional wisdom, two researchers determine that deftly playing office politics has a tendency to backfire.

Shell has permission to drill off the coast of Alaska, but other oil companies are warning of potentially harmful long-term consequences.

America has a big problem mistaking courage for cowardice and it stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of bullies, according to The Baffler’s David Graeber.

Apes share some very human characteristics, displaying intelligence, language, and now, possibly, speech. So, what does it mean to be human, exactly?

Dr. Christopher Watson explains the barriers to finding another haven for human life.

The Black Mambas regularly face unpredictable safari animals and heavily armed poachers.

With self-driving cars as well as other new tech, Apple and Google maintain starkly different corporate values with regard to transparency.

For the 1960s generation, however, “the day the music died” was July 25, 1965 — the day when Bob Dylan crashed the 1965 Newport Folk Festival stage with an electric guitar in front of him and rock band behind him to rip into a loud, raucous version of his new hit, “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Donald Trump is the topic of our national conversation, and the reason for his popularity seems to revolve around his distaste for political correctness—but why do we love that? 

Inside the huge star-forming region filled with hot, new stars, Hubble takes us on an unforgettable tour. “This method of viewing the heavens seems to throw them into a new […]

That picture of you at the Royal Observatory astride the Greenwich Meridian? It’s a lie.

In Inside Out, this summer’s fantastic Pixar film about the fraught emotional landscape of childhood, a girl named Riley gets hauled away from her idyllic life in Minnesota to a […]

Ever wanted to push your body’s limits, even without a partner/spotter? Technology has finally caught up to your ambitions! Note: I’ve received a number of questions about this post. This […]

One of the planet’s most well-known car cities is gearing for a transportation reboot.