While some school districts have experimented with holding classes via the internet during bad weather, the format isn't wholly feasible for all subjects.

The way most helicopter parents behave, you'd think the daily chance of dying is equal to a coin flip.

Every form of medical therapy has a Number Needed to Treat (N.N.T.) and Number Needed to Harm (N.N.H.). These statistics help patients learn whether a treatment is worth pursuing.

Innovation expert Michael Schrage explores the major questions that have risen from the recent Sony hack. He questions whether hacking and cyberattacks should be treated as mere misdemeanors or as more serious affronts to personal freedom.

Without a nuanced understanding of what it means to be authentic, we easily shirk the effort required to fully explore our range of personal and professional potential.

I began the new year on a very positive – and inspiring – note after reading Eric Liu’s latest commentary on “Radical Empathy”.  The founder and CEO of Citizen University, […]

One of the field's most acclaimed psychiatrists explains the dangers of neglecting the severity of intense traumatic experiences. 

Pope Francis' remarks on climate change, that we must collectively account for our mistreatment of nature, has also weakened the GOP's political narrative in which they appear as the party of God.

Some may be shocked or relieved to hear a study recently revealed that older people enjoy having sex well into their seventies and eighties.

Tablets and smartphones are often used as a pacifier during mealtime for youngsters. But researchers speculate that this use could be detrimental to a child's ability to learn self-control.

Americans are brought up on the idea that if someone works hard enough, they can move up in society. When in reality this kind of social mobility—a rags-to-riches story—is hard to come by.

The largest, diffuse sight in the sky is full of wonder. (And stars, and more!) “The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in […]

Legislators in several different states are trying to keep cursive alive by introducing bills mandating its teaching. Some experts—including the architects of common core—don't feel it's a priority.

The theories that physicists have amassed over the centuries to explain our understanding of the universe are ultimately paradoxical.

High-intensity exercise is better at preventing conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, than typical sustained activities like jogging or biking.

Creativity comes at unusual times: in the shower, when you're out for a walk, seemingly when we aren't doing anything—when we're bored. But smartphones assure that our minds are never without occupation.

Say “I still love you, but I’m furious” with the adorable, contemptuous Japanese concept of the “Revenge Lunchbox” (Shikaeshi Bento). “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you […]

Given only their credit card numbers, a group from MIT was able to uncover the identities of 90 percent of 1.1 million people.

The world is safer now than it ever has been, yet you wouldn't know it judging from the behavior of a fear-addicted society.

"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field."