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When we don’t know the reasons behind our choices, we confabulate. 

When you see Nazis in the streets chanting things like “Jews will not replace us,” it can be difficult to comprehend why they would believe such horrid things.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons issued a statement to remind its members of their fundamental obligation to science-based medicine and animal welfare. 

The government decides the risk of research into dangerous viruses is worth the reward.

The results of two human clinical trials involving elderly patients suffering from frailty showed no adverse side effects and “remarkable” physical improvement. 

With his 51st Oscar nomination for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, composer John Williams has mastered the craft of the film score. 

Altruism may be influenced by other biological mechanisms outside of the brain.

If most people knew the details, they might feel very differently about the games.

ISIS, Hurricane Katrina, Fukushima—for each of these disastrous developments, there was someone with a bunch of data that no one would listen to.

That same pattern is seen in chimps and orangutans, primatologists say.

Your mind doesn’t run parallel tasks, it has to trade off one focus for another. The good news is that mindfulness meditation can hone your attention span, and reduce stress and anxiety.

Another week, another selection of the wittiest and most chin-strokingly interesting comments from our Facebook audience. 

Many people will try to give you hope or sell it to you, says Richard M. Cohen, who was diagnosed with MS at 25, and has battled two bouts of cancer, but hope is an internal discovery.

It’s more than just weight gain—it’s chronic inflammation and weak immunity.

“The quality of homework assigned is so poor that simply getting kids to read, replacing homework with self-selected reading, was a more powerful alternative,” said Professor Richard Allington.

Nietzsche’s ideas were used by the Nazi’s to justify their atrocities, but did Nietzsche actually support Fascism? 

Should there be a ceiling to the ambitions of Silicon Valley? It seems like a decisive “no,” according to the people who want to build new societies online, atop the ocean, and on Mars. 

A college degree is still a well-trodden path to relative financial success. Even so, a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a secure job, or of any job at all.

Science Debate asks 2018 candidates to discuss their views on 10 vital scientific policy issues.

Career global security expert Richard Clarke identifies three potential game changing events that could adversely affect the wellbeing of humanity itself.

You may have heard of Laniakea, but don’t count on it being real. “It’s the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest […]

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Salman Rushdie on the secret life of cities and so much more. 

In his latest book, Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen covers the first five hundreds years of American magical thinking. 

Is “science broken” or self-correcting? And who is going to do the grown-up thing and fix the game (instead of scoring points within it)?

The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.    

In this new study, mindfulness-based intervention in schools did not move the needle on teen anxiety, depression, or body image problems.

First, let me tell you how smart I am. So smart. My fifth-grade teacher said I was gifted in mathematics and, looking back, I have to admit that she was […]

Most marriages end in resentment. Why should longevity be the sole marker of a successful marriage?    

“The starting point for understanding inequality in the context of human progress is to recognize that income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being.”

Advancements in creating artificial meat raise questions.