Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 81, announced on Wednesday his upcoming resignation, marking the end of a three-decade tenure on the high court.
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Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?
The Humboldt marten, a (much cuter) cousin of the weasel, has been placed on the endangered species list thanks to marijuana croppers.
A large analysis shows that many species are completely changing their habits to avoid humans.
It turns out, that tattoo ink can travel throughout your body and settle in lymph nodes.
Sports teams have yet to pour a celebratory cooler of chocolate milk over their coach after winning the big game.
In a historic upset, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young democratic socialist of Latina descent, has defeated political veteran Joe Crowley in their party’s congressional primary in New York City.
Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder.
True innovation and design thinking do not necessarily originate only with the sequestered brain trust of a “skunkworks” research & development style team. Instead, it is the productive combination of […]
20 years ago, we discovered that distant galaxies were accelerating away from us. Here’s how the Universe makes it happen. Matter and energy tell spacetime how to curve; curved spacetime tells […]
After widespread criticism of Facebook’s handling of election meddling, fake news and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, investors are growing increasingly frustrated at the company’s leadership.
Maybe everything we do is bad. But it’s not all bad to the same extent. Writer Jonathan Safran Foer on factory farming and free-range parenting in 2018.
“We express no view on the soundness of the policy,” Justice Roberts wrote in the Trump v. Hawaii Supreme Court ruling.
The decision, supported in the majority opinion by the court’s conservative justices, is a victory for nationwide religious groups and a defeat for the mostly liberal state.
In the Communication Styles Matrix, there are four basic styles of communicators: the Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer. Typically, people are a combination of at least two communication styles—one “primary” […]
Half of all the antibiotics produced in the United States are given to animals to help them grow faster, should we stop this for the sake of our health?
If we don’t invest in learning about the Universe, we aren’t going to learn very much. Every ten years, the field of astronomy and astrophysics undergoes a Decadal Survey. This charts […]
To spur action on climate change, we need a story of mythical proportions.
The James Webb Space Telescope could mean finding a human-sustaining planet in another galaxy.
Almost half of the American workers don’t take all the vacation days they can, leading to increased health risks.
We knew that coffee is good for us. Now we know why.
A fresh take on the decades-old Drake equation incorporates new factors and greater uncertainty, suggesting a high likelihood that humanity is alone in the universe.
A new study from MIT has found that piano lessons have a very specific effect on kindergartners’ ability to distinguish different pitches, which translates into an improvement in discriminating between spoken words.
Millennials are the first generation on track to make less than their parents. Of course, there was that whole Great Recession starting in 2008…
Are some of the most particular painting styles in history the result of impoverished vision, or a conscious artistic choice made by the artist?
In rural America, the odds of having access to a specialized mental health professional are slim, according to new research.
If you thought LIGO’s recent discoveries were profound and unusual, wait until you meet OJ 287. Recently, LIGO has revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe by discovering merging black holes. The […]
A new study shows that environment, not genetics, determines behavioral patterns of eating in youth that persist throughout life.
Young workers experience insufficient opportunities for work experience, a mismatch between work and education, a lack of career management skills and scant entry-level jobs.