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I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]

AspireAssist received a governmental blessing for a stomach pump that dumps out a third of what you just ate.

It might be the nearest supernova humanity will ever see. What will happen when it goes off? “Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or […]

Every day, somewhere between 60 and 70 million girls are not in school. More than half a billion females worldwide are illiterate—about twice the number of illiterate males.

Carl Sagan was one of the people who helped shape this recording that might just end up in the hands of some other beings, somewhere out there. 

Trump’s impending presidency has left marijuana advocates with fingers crossed on one hand, with the other ready to flush the toilet at a moment’s notice.

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom suggests a bit of reason in your feeling in his new book, Against Empathy.

If we started all over again, could our Solar System’s second planet have been the inhabited one? “It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though […]

Its 18 large, segmented golden mirrors aren’t even the whole story. But how much gold is really in there? “Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light […]

A “magical probiotic mouthwash” may someday eradicate them, according to UC-San Diego researchers, whose research is leading them to a trigger in the microbiome.  

Evidence suggests that gains in symptom reduction are permanent.  

A new experimental drug can theoretically take out any virus, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. 

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Fiction writer and environmentalist T.C. Boyle on the crazy, contested world we might not be able to inhabit much longer, and what we’ll do after that. 

Stephen Hawking considers the future of humanity in a talk at Oxford University.

Scientists create a portable device that can detect 17 diseases, including 8 different cancers, straight from a person’s breath.

Dying is expensive, but it shouldn’t be so.

At its hottest, the closest world to the Sun reaches up to 800º Fahrenheit. But another has it beat. “There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable […]

SuitX has announced the next generation of workplace human augmentation: a bionic suit that could help enhance productivity within the labor industry and reduce costs.

Words don’t work like we were taught. That old neat nouns and verbs type tale hides the weird truth. Language is a mix of flux and fixed but flexible elements that relies on “unknown knowns.”

There’s only medicine that works and medicine that does not, writes Paul Offit.

Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with. 

Some fear we are meddling with forces too powerful for human control.  

Scientists discover that up to 47% of chromosomes isn’t chromatins after all.

A universal basic income (UBI) policy could change how we evaluate the meaning and quality of work in our society.

Elon Musk shared his thoughts on the future of jobs and the government’s role in a rapidly changing society.

Facebook can flip your digital identity on and off at the switch; that is way too much power for any corporation to have, says Oliver Luckett — and we handed it to them.

More helpful inhabitants call our bodies home than previously known.   

Billionaires: what have they done for us lately? Well, some of them have developed the tech you’re reading this on (scoring good points), but others have gamed the system and nepotismed their way to the bank (bad, bad billionaires).

Above all, we should proceed with the assumption that there is no such thing as an unbiased information source, period.

Research being done with brain organoids (“mini brains” deriving from cells, such as teeth) from those with autism and Williams syndrome is providing insight into what makes humans social.