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Experts assess the strengths and weaknesses of the North Korean military in a potential conflict. 

Taking stock of the impact of the 36 love questions on Valentine’s Day.

The Finnish government is giving its citizens money, plain and simple. But what’s the catch? And will it work?

It’s always been our brains. 

Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]

The season finale gets the one thing Star Trek is famous for — ethics — completely wrong. Life is full of dilemmas whose solutions seem paradoxical. To obtain peace, you must prepare for war. […]

With the launch of JPSS-1 coming up this year, everything that NASA Earth science stands for hinges on its success. “There is, then, no water that is wholly of the Pacific, […]

A state-run Chinese space company announced plans for supersonic “flying” trains.

The Brazilian government has been trying to answer this very question in its ever-growing prison population, which has doubled since the year 2000. 

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

There are many different “secret sauces” used by various organizations to fuel employee innovation and engagement. From production systems that foster employee independence and authority, to specific training programs and […]

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 […]

The Germans have a lovely saying for the benefits of keeping an idle mind: ‘die Seele baumeln lassen’, meaning ‘let the soul dangle’.    

A new study predicts air-travel turbulence may occur over larger areas thanks to climate change.

LHC researchers discover a double-heavy set of quarks that may reveal new insights into the strong force.

Anti-vaxers have some questions about vaccine safety, here we give the answers.

A new report from the IMF shows why income equality hurts everyone and proposes higher taxes on the wealthy and investigating universal basic income.

Asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions may yet have patterns to them, but the extinctions we’ve experienced appear to have occurred at random. Throughout the history of life on Earth, there have […]

The next-to-last episode of the first season is heavy on plot and character development, but packs a science and ethical punch, too. What do you do when, after a life-threatening journey […]

BICEP2 scientist Brian Keating’s new book is honest and insightful, but just as notable for what it fails to recognize. Imagine what it’s like to be a scientist working on […]

“Our kids are ‘wired’ for control. Our role as adults is not to force them to follow the track we’ve laid out for them; it’s to help them develop the skills to find their own way…”

Find the right genes and we’ll have a way to prolong life and good health, perhaps indefinitely.

The origin of life on Earth may have nothing to do with Earth at all. “An extrapolation of the genetic complexity of organisms to earlier times suggests that life began before […]

A Midwestern university has created a first-of-its-kind program in medicinal plant chemistry that focuses on marijuana.

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.

Researchers believe it may help uncover the secret to how the pyramid was built.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Poet, playwright, and arts educator Liza Jessie Peterson on lessons learned teaching incarcerated youth on Rikers Island. 

Populism won two big votes in 2016, while the global worldview suffered… well… “big league”. But how did we get to this big discord? And can populism and globalization ever get along?

A new planet, bigger than Earth, could be lurking in the outer solar system. But new evidence says ‘probably not.’ “Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could […]

There’s no way to frame this as anything other than a disaster for humanity. This article was originally written one week ago, on the day the FY2019 budget was released […]