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Innovation is all about people. And the world of innovation is a world in which humans define what is new and accepted and embraced.

Perhaps the limits of what we can observe aren’t just artificial; perhaps there are no limits to what’s out there at all. “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, […]

Interpersonal skills are a prerequisite for harnessing outside-the-box thinking on behalf of others, and they’re just as important as math, science and technology training.

Melanin, the pigment-producing part of human skin, may change the way batteries are manufactured and used.

Thanksgiving may already be a week behind us, but there’s always something to be thankful for. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful […]

Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has done more than just ‘think of the children’, she wrote a book – and it rules favorably for free play and the end of scholastic parenting.

Or can moving at relativistic speeds through a general relativistic Universe change everything? “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can […]

During a time of division and fear, the Buddhist path offers insights into surviving and uniting.

How sure are we that what we’re looking at is cosmic, rather than galactic? “Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a […]

The longer you roll that dice, the higher the chance that a DNA mutation spawns a cancerous cell. The researchers on this study likened it to playing Russian roulette; sooner or later, there’s one in the chamber. 

If the impossible space engine works, could dark matter reconcile the laws of physics with these bizarre experimental results? “…axions are potentially detectable through their weak coupling to electromagnetism…” –Aaron […]

Three simple questions; an amazing story that goes way beyond Einstein! “Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system ‘at rest’ with the definite, constant velocity V independent of […]

From a “faint smudge” to the most intricate objects in our galaxy, we’ve come an incredibly long way. “From our home on the Earth, we look out into the distances … to […]

A live-blog event happened a week ago, but you can catch the entire thing anew here, right now! “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in […]

As John B Judis writes in The Populist Explosion, this sort of uprising has been with us for years.

The UK sees Sealand as nothing more than a platform in its waters. The Bates Family disagrees.   

According to Pulitzer winner Charles Duhigg, the art of focus is training your mind to know what it can safely ignore.

Beyond climate change, ice ages or even the death of our Sun, the cosmic dance continues for ages. Here’s how it will truly end. “The way to love anything is to […]

Interest in Buddhism worldwide has been on the reason in recent decades. Many remain skeptical, however, over potential philosophical problems or un-scientific commitments at the heart of Buddhist teachings and practice. The world’s happiest man talks with a renowned philosopher to answer these objections.

The strange origin of autocorrect during the development of an American secret Chinese computer.

A new study finds that even one season of football can affect a child’s brain. But soccer isn’t safe, either. 

Physicists may be close to creating the theoretical “time crystals”.

A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.

And just what did come before — way before — the Big Bang? “We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our […]

A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.

Anti-Islam fervor has overlooked important artistic contributions made by Muslim artists around the world. 

Can we work out what ingredients could make “free will” work? Here’s a map of some of the steps it would need. 

What does a theoretical physicist do all day? Janna Levin shares some insight on perception vs. reality, and provides a glimpse of how she spends her time (hint: doing math).

And what it found was a world swimming, literally, with possibilities. Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the […]

Which came first, monogamy or the social contract? Evolutionary psychologists and biologists think the latter.