Culture & Religion

For years we’ve wondered if educational programs are the reason for the disparity between women and men in engineering, but what if there’s another reason?

The state of Texas has a new way to keep people current with their child support payments. If you fall behind, don’t expect to be able to renew your vehicle registration.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a gun-control advocate whose home state saw the massacre of 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary, has launched a surprise filibuster on the floor of the Senate.

The evolution of driving might disconnect us from each other even more.

From amputees to porn addicts, the art of touch is being explored and monetized by the growing haptics industry. 

With threats like climate change looming ever larger, humans might have to go back to the roots to find solutions.

Traffic navigation apps like Waze are loved by some and hated by others. But why?

Believing life is fair might be better for your emotional health, but it also presents risks in how you treat others.

The value and morality of zoos is being questioned after the tragic shooting of a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo.

Diverse friendships matter to our well-being as a society, but they start decreasing at quite an early age.

Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit is a classic freedom of the press case dressed up as a soap opera.

Yale researchers create a groundbreaking device that utilizes two key concepts in quantum physics.

Artists are producing tactile art for the vision-impaired and the blind.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is spearheading a national no-kill shelter movement for cats and dogs.

Researchers have new evidence showing preference and “cheating” for those who are most like us, even when we don’t directly benefit.

Siddhartha Mukherjee explores the genetics of sex and sexual identity in his new book, The Gene: An Intimate History.

If new kinds of drugs aren’t developed soon superbugs or antibiotic resistant bacteria could erase all the gains modern medicine has made. Even simple infections would become life-threatening. Fortunately, government plans are tackling the issue and some scientists have already found a few things that can take superbugs out.   

Cooking indoors with solid fuels can lead to a variety of respiratory illnesses, and even death.

Kickstarter loves games. Since the crowdfunding site’s inception in 2009, Kickstarter has successfully raised $444 million for this category alone.

Why do so many men default to saying ‘I got this’ when they really don’t?

A recent Supreme Court ruling declared that unintentional bias is not only real but harmful. That ruling not only validates the work of cognitive scientists, but paves the way for change. 

Billionaire Peter Thiel is the secret money behind Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit and why it matters.

For the first time in 130 years, more young adults are living with their parents than with a spouse. Find out why that is and what it could mean for the economy.

The world’s favorite 140-character engine has some new changes coming that will hopefully draw in a whole new pool of users.

Kids who have dads that commute long distances to work don’t have the same behavior as those who don’t.

The Parkmerced housing development in San Francisco will be offering credit for either Uber or public transportation for residents who promise not to have a car on the premises.

Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman argues that cultural evolution is often more influential than biological evolution, leading to a host of ailments. 

430,000 people are injured every year due to distracted driving. Will this new invention help combat this trend? 

The solution might not be easy, but researchers have identified strategies that help all children thrive in the classroom.

Children who grow up in cities have higher rates of psychosis than others. Researchers find that social cohesion and crime rates are important to these differences.