Orion Jones

When the financial crisis first struck, Bernanke “said the Fed had to operate fundamentally differently to get through this.”

Through the first decade of the twenty-first century, cash infusion from China fueled growth in the United States to the tune of nearly $3.5 trillion.

Neuroscientists have taught a computer program how pixels from brain scans correspond to individual pixels in letters of the alphabet. 

Malcolm Gladwell is defending his claim that 10,000 hours worth of practice is generally necessary before becoming an expert in highly complex fields.

University of Michigan researchers have found that staying connected to others through social media, specifically Facebook, exacts a heavy psychological tole.

Evidence points to around a 20 percent reduction in mortality among volunteers compared to non-volunteers in cohort studies.

Long considered an area in which willpower reigned supreme, new scientific analyses suggest there is a positive correlation between viewing violence and acting violently.

Mood has long been known to affect health, with those living in consistently happier states enjoying a lower risk of disease.

Because research has found that a person’s willpower is a limited resource, it was believed that eating sugary foods could replenish the will’s strength.

Some people classified as obese by the Body Mass Index may outlive those with normal weight, suggesting that while the BMI is pretty good, it is not perfect.

The amounts of copper readily found in the water we drink, food we eat, and vitamins we take, likely play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

A genetic test to be marketed directly to consumers will test an individual’s genetic make up to determine how he or she will react to prescription drugs.

With the world economy fighting its way off the ropes, is China capable of supporting global commerce by developing an economic juggernaut like Apple or Ikea?

On Tuesday evening, the television news network Al Jazeera America will enter the homes of nearly half of this country’s 100 million cable subscribers.

Doomsday predictions about a world with too many mouths to feed, once predicted to reach 11 billion by 2050, are being drastically reevaluated. 

The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.

While this summer has yielded mostly positive economic news, the engines of recovery in Europe, Japan, and China, may inevitably lose steam.

Within the first 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, there is a widespread, transient surge of highly synchronized brain activity that had features associated with a highly aroused brain.

Known as prospective memory, scientific research has shed new light on two separate brain processes that prompt the brain to tell you to remember certain things.

While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.

An American firm has created the world’s first brain implant that delivers treatment while recording brain activity as a way of anticipating future health changes.

Individuals are drawn to either good or bad behavior depending on how they recall their past actions.

Homosexual sociologists have put forth several theories as to why the gay community idealizes the male physique, each more politically incorrect than the last.

A new idea out of Durham, North Carolina, may make locally grown urban produce more commercially viable than ever before.

A recent string of high-profile legal events suggest that government institutions are beginning to bend to public opinion.

World meat demand is at an all time high, despite its lack of nutritional benefits given alternatives like beans, nuts, quinoa, and tofu.

Biologists at Princeton University have used 3-D printing technology to create a bionic ear capable of detecting frequencies one million times higher than the normal range of hearing.

Adding to international pressure on Russia is the country’s ambition to host international sporting and business events, such as the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

Much of the NSA’s data collection efforts simply work to skim private information from the vast consumer caches held by corporations like Facebook, Google, and Amazon.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, conclude that rising temperatures and wetter seasons will aggravate regions across the world already prone to conflict.