Culture & Religion

Brazilian scientists have been working on gathering the necessary materials to clone endangered species, but conservationists fear it distracts from existing habitat protection.

Currently American football is the nation’s 20th favorite sport, below sailing and Formula 1. The league hopes to bring it into the top 10 via several different approaches.

As architects understand more about the brain, they may be able to design space that facilitates learning and growth, perhaps even space that helps treat neurological diseases. 

Neurological research shows that brains process auditory information ten times faster than visual cues, but our ability to truly listen is being put at risk by digital distraction and information overload.

Weeks before a major UN conference is scheduled to take place in Qatar, young people will hit the streets in more than a dozen countries across the region.

By taking advantage of existing clips stored on a DVR, it lets users design entirely new videos featuring a particular character or plot line.

The Election Night spectacle on Fox News featuring an apparently unhinged Karl Rove taking on a roomful of data analyzers who had called the election for President Obama has me […]

NowThis News, an iOS app created by two former Huffington Post executives, brings the news to mobile users in segments lasting a minute or less.

Blurb, which until now focused only on books, will allow Adobe InDesign users to create custom-made magazines and brochures through its digital platform starting today.

For years, highly-skilled Indians traveled to the States to build businesses, but now the flow is reversing, with young Americans creating a variety of startups on the subcontinent.

By a vote of 131 to 2, the country’s Congress passed a law giving 16- and 17-year-olds the option to participate in elections starting next year.

Our attraction to the unpredictable rewards of inconstant love have deep biological roots in the brain. It is yet another manifestation of the balance between immediate and long-term pleasure. 

Consuming politically charged information in a difficult-to-read font tends to disrupt long-held and recently formed biases, suggests new psychological research from the University of Illinois. 

The mere presence of an image next to a statement makes it more likely that people will believe the statement. It’s a psychological fact that demonstrates the malleability of our beliefs. 

A new study shows that young people who regularly go to a place of worship are more likely to graduate high school and go on to college.

A professor has over 100,000 titles available on Amazon UK, all of them “written” by — not “with the help of”, but “by” — software he created.

Protests against the building of France’s first Mormon place of worship reveals unease about the decline of Catholicism and the (slight) rise of Christian evangelism.

A recent report shows that, while French is still hanging on in Quebec, it’s slipping in the rest of the provinces as more immigrants from Asia enter the country and choose English as their second language.

Evolutionary pressures have made women more attracted to sexy men during the peak of their ovulation cycle, say researchers at UCLA who have completed an interesting new study.

The American cupcake craze has come to savory foods. Dishes like pizza and lasagna are being served in dessert tins, perhaps because we have an evolutionary attraction to cute things. 

Surrounding yourself with, and adhering closely to, those who share your opinions leads to difficulty in coherently analyzing today’s political problems. A new study says this is true regardless of your network’s perceived levels of political sophistication.

Of the 303 million people living in the United States, half or so are registered to vote. It’s rather impressive to think that a good proportion of the 150 million […]

First launched on October 9 and ending later today, this experiment in variable pricing for e-book bundles has made $1.1 million for authors, charities, and the creators of the idea.

A Swedish startup launched a Kickstarter project today to raise money to help bring its “lapel-camera” to market by early next year.

When voters are asked to explain the policy positions they claim to support, the complexity of the issues naturally makes them soften of their positions, improving political discourse.

A comprehensive study out of Sweden suggests that creative people are more likely to have bipolar disorder, particularly writers. The implication is that art can be used as therapy. 

Currently in public beta, Härnu is a social platform where people around the world can share ideas and hold conversations with the help of Google Translate.

The country is eager to increase foreign investment and to distance itself from the legacy of Belgian colonialism and French interference, which many believe sowed the seeds of the 1994 genocide.

In the first elections to be seen in the area in six years or more, more women are on the ticket than ever before, but skepticism about the elections themselves may hinder progress.

It was an independent republic for over 1000 years. Today, partially due to resentment of Italy’s central government, activists want to create a new “Repubblica Veneta.”