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Researchers hope training machines to the test will allow for advances in imbuing software with basic common sense.

It is very difficult and expensive for inmates to keep in touch with their loved ones. Yet, studies have consistently found that prisoners who maintain close contact with their family members while incarcerated have better post-release outcomes and lower recidivism rates. 

Have you been enjoying the wonders that the skies offer? If you haven’t caught the Perseid meteor shower yet, don’t despair that the peak was Thursday morning; remember that Friday […]

A participatory budgeting system in which neighborhood residents vote on projects is getting a trial run in America’s largest city.

Before you tout the next exoplanet as “the most Earth-like ever,” ask whether that’s true, and whether that’s even a good thing. “You can spend too much time wondering which […]

Bike shares shown to increase property values up to 2.7 percent.

For an affluent Western country, the United States has an usually high proportion of its people living in warm-to-tropical climates, which are breeding grounds for parasites.

It’s able to see patterns rather than all possible solutions.

Technomorphic ideas can alter the rules of our thinking about our thinking — and also show that simple rules can escape physics-like predictability. 

This is really happening. And solar power is the key.

A sociologist has launched a blistering attack on his own field, but the problem he addresses is something that affects us all.

If you see a picture of a planet, can you identify which of the eight it is? “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes […]

Human population will rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 and further still to 11.2 billion by 2100. Not to mention global warming.

We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.

Infants whose mothers used drugs during pregnancy are often born already addicted to those substances. After birth, an analysis of the detached umbilical cord can determine what severe physiological withdrawal symptoms can be expected.

I’m a granola-eating hippie liberal, and I kind of admire Carly Fiorina. What happens when we like a person, but hate their politics?

Juvenile incarceration isn’t just a minor sentence. Researchers have found it sets off a chain reaction that follows them into adulthood.

What we can see extends for 46.1 billion light years in all directions today. So how big was it at birth? “They say it all started out with a big bang. […]

Fish, plants, rocks, and some ornaments? Amateur hour is over; take a look at the results from the International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest! “Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the […]

People adopt a “protective” gait when they’re distracted.

Recent trends in the habits of romantic millennials appear to buck conventional wisdom and well-regarded theories of communication.

A decision requiring cellphone retailers to warn customers of possible radiation risk typifies the emotion-based way that democracy can supersede intelligent government risk policy-making.

How does he deliver presents to hundreds of millions of households in just one night? With physics, of course! “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to […]

Researchers track thousands of healthy honeybees to figure out what’s leading to their decline.

According to retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, top-notch cybersecurity isn’t modeled after the Maginot Line or a giant wall attempting to block outside forces from getting in. Instead, we need to design cybersecurity that acts like an immune system, learning on the go every time a new or unique challenge emerges.

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, explains how the cloud is evolving in a way few anticipated.

Exploring and mapping the Universe? A great plan. But the math of spending billions on asteroid deflection doesn’t add up. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the […]

Cancer is the scariest disease, but not all causes of cancer frighten us equally.

Climate change doesn’t have the emotional characteristics that make it truly deep-in-your-heart scary. Leaders will have to act anyway.

Google wants to stop the spread of misinformation by changing the way it ranks pages — concentrating more on facts rather than links.