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The gender-wage gap is more complex than we may think, as researchers find female managers are not the solution to the wage issues.

New robot seeks to bring convenience to your life, and can master new tasks on the fly.

Research shows evidence that we can alter our brains to enhance our creative thinking — all through the power of art.

An incredible art project creates a new, tiny world every day. “I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.”–Mohsin Hamid As small as it is […]

Open borders would lead to a massive wave of immigration and probably the collapse of American constitutional democracy… though one economist says that’s not a bad thing.

The final building to rise in place of the original WTC will be the work of star architect Bjark Ingels, who famously designed Google’s new headquarters in California. 

Is “nudge theory” Big Brother running our lives, or just the medicine we need? 

Dan Price, CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, made headlines last week with his announcement of a bold new salary structure that will see all of his staffers make at least $70,000 annually in the next three years.

Bees produce honey, beeswax and… maps? Yes they do, if they’re one of Ren Ri’s swarms.

Our observable Universe is finite, and so is the amount of information in it. Here’s what we may never know. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really […]

Information Theory explicitly ignores meaning. Its focus on messages makes it uninformative about their effects. And limits the usefulness of its way of quantifying information. 

America has a big problem mistaking courage for cowardice and it stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of bullies, according to The Baffler’s David Graeber.

The pope laments the state of the environment, but he also decries the naive central environmentalist belief that humans are separate from nature and the villain in a simple myth of US (humans) against True Nature.

“Teamwork is the signature adaptation of” humanity, says David Sloan Wilson. And our ancestors evolved ruthlessly cooperative means of ensuring productive social coordination. 

Spiral galaxies have a skeleton-like structure that supports them. See the Milky Way’s first discovered bone! “The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached […]

NASA’s great observatories combine to give us a unique view of a sight no human ever saw the first time around. “And no one showed us to the landAnd no […]

There are lots of wrong reasons out there, but only one that matters. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in […]

Why is the word such a wet blanket? Scientists investigate.

How Futurism gave us the word “robot,” the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory.

The always-entertaining Ruby Wax explains the structure of the brain and how a natural hormone addiction — particularly to dopamine — keeps us in a perpetual state of wanting.

Researchers found banning smartphones from the classroom helped raise the worst students’ test scores and bring up the class average.

Facebook has enabled PGP encryption as an option for notification emails, adding another layer of security for users. So, what companies will follow?

Human intelligence is richer than logic: It includes “being funny, being sexy, expressing a loving sentiment — maybe in a poem or in a musical piece.”

Your Facebook feed is a virtual echo chamber. It serves the same purpose as Fox News or MSNBC.

Architect Marc Kushner explains how the goals of architecture and design vary between locations and contexts.

A leftover glow unlike any other — of neutrinos — has finally been seen. “When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.” –Jenna Morasca Seventy years […]

The high-paid consultants who change companies over to “Holacracy” explain from the outset that it takes an average of five years to make the transition.

After the CMB, before the first stars, there was nothing to see. Or was there? “[I]f there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we […]

There were two periods of exponential expansion in the Universe: one today and one long ago. Are they related? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. […]

Professor Tamar Gendler uses the work of three titans of the discipline — Thomas Hobbes, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick — as a lens to guide us through the taut debate over the role of government in society.