We are not the safe small blue dot we like to think we are, but rather, we are more like a target in a “cosmic shooting gallery.”
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Are smokers, non-exercisers, non-savers and other such undisciplined people acting irrationally? The conventional wisdom of our decade says yes, of course, they are. That’s why we need policies that will […]
Update: A couple hours ago, a judge struck down the New York City ban on large-sized sodas as arbitrary and capricious, in part because the ban did not also include […]
It’s been a few months since I wrote an op-ed in The New York Times to propose a wealth tax as a way to stem the harmful rise of inequality in […]
Autism is a complex phenomenon with an extremely broad spectrum of effects that vary in every individual, a new interactive simulator aims to provide only a hint at what it is like […]
By providing an accurate roadmap for anyone from CEO to sales superstar to auto mechanic who wishes to increase their personal career relevancy in a world of transformative change, you now have a new tool you can use to make career and education decisions with confidence.
“I’m a storyteller at heart,” Star Wars mastermind George Lucas says at the beginning of his proposal for a new museum to be built on the grounds of San Francisco’s […]
The decades-old social welfare model built for the country’s elderly is showing its limitations as a growing number choose to relocate to nursing homes in Eastern European countries.
By discovering the molecular switch that helps the brain transition from adolescence to adulthood, a team of Yale researchers have reversed the process, recreating a youthful brain.
The Obama administration is considering funding what could amount to the biggest science project of all time. Called the Brain Activity Map, it would change the scale at which the brain is understood.
At one of the world’s biggest religious festivals, a charity founded in 1946 brings separated people together. Their record is much better than India’s at large.
Amra Babic, a trained economist, is challenging assumptions of Islam both in her native country and across a continent that struggles with accommodating diverse expressions of faith.
In his new book, How to Create a Mind, engineer and futurist Ray Kurzweil puts forth a theory of the brain that is meant to demonstrate how engineers could build a computer that would mimic the mind.
When Yahoo recently terminated its telecommuting policy, forcing employees to return to the office rather than work from home, it likely stymied the creative capacities of its work force.
Far from receiving information about the world as it is, our biology—and psychology—filter what we perceive to be reality to a very high degree. Mindfulness can help us notice our surroundings.
Do you live on your own edge? Living on the edge is exactly what inspired, highly motivated people aspire to always do. Last December, I went to the grand finale […]
A new wireless authentication system called BodyCom could change the way locked doors are opened and the way firearms are activated by using the human body as a password.
A team of Swedish scientists have created a nanoparticle capable of delivering non-toxic cancer-treatment drugs directly to tumors in the body which are biodegradable and traceable.
While diets high in saturated fats are known to increase cholesterol levels, exactly how cholesterol influences heart disease remains to be fully understood, say scientists.
Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University has announced to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that a patient under her care has been cured of HIV infection.
There has been much chatter recently about the new found potential of “big data”. Google NGram for example, tracks usage of words in books and Google Flu Trends does what it says on the […]
While scientists are far from being able to regenerate humans limbs, they are gaining a better understanding of how this complex process takes place in a host of different species.
“Give us a chance,” the company and its employees were saying, and “we’ll show you what we can do. And, by golly, they did.”
A new global warming study uses data going back to the end of the last ice age to demonstrate that the world is warmer now than at almost any other time since.
How can the United States collectively face rising health care costs, a broken healthcare system, and public health epidemics such as obesity and diabetes? Three top medical innovators offer solutions.
Aromatherapists rejoice: There’s now hard evidence showing that being exposed to the scent of nature — specifically trees and plants — is almost as good for the body as being outside.
As more institutions take advantage of improved tracking methods, all kinds of unusual information is being sold to data brokers, and there’s still not a whole lot you can do about it.
The dual shockwaves of accelerating advances in space accessibility due to miniaturization and private sector competition have put NewSpace in the midst of a transformation.
Consider one last autobiographical note before I answer the question: “How do we avoid the Sartre Fallacy?” I conducted an independent study my senior year that focused on biases and […]
Solar-powered calculators have been around for decades, but scientists have yet to come up with a smartphone equivalent. However, one company is working on a solar cell that could extend existing battery life.