You don't need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.

A program in Brazil both helped and harmed. What can we learn from it?

Preferring "bases not places," the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.

Prosthetic arms can cost amputees $80,000. A startup called Unlimited Tomorrow is aiming to change that by making customized 3D-printed bionic arms for just $8,000.

Bitcoin's creator owns five percent of the entire Bitcoin supply, meaning that he has a larger percent of Bitcoin than the U.S. has of gold.

People are driving less. This trend is expected to continue.

Hospitals often deal with the aftermath of gun violence, but they can play a key role in preventing it.

Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.

Higher education, particularly for fields like filmmaking, is in big trouble when a world-class education can be found online cheaply or even for free.

Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.

The Seychelles magpie-robin is up for sale – yes, for sale – as a digital nature collectible.

Our chart shows new additions since 1984 that have stuck around.

Three ideas could help create the police force that Americans want.

A socially minded franchise model makes money while improving society.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

An unconventional solution to the problem of violence.

The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.

English is a dynamic language, and this summer's new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we're living.

By slowing down aging, we could reap trillions of dollars in economic benefits.

Some of these trends may be due, in part, to the lockdown.

A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.

Two-thirds of romances start out as friendships.

Technology usually has more pros than cons, but every benefit still carries some risk.

Nearly 90% of the world's blind live in low-income countries.

A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.

The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.

Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.

As air pollution increases, so does violent crime.

The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.

In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?