A member of NASA’s Expedition 38 crew on the International Space Station snapped this 600mm night view shot of Sochi, Russia a few days before the Olympics began. The “eye” […]

Stephen Hawking shares 10 of his best science jokes in this video series from the Science Channel. Charismatic and controversial, Hawking has no shortage of fans. Image credit: elhombredenegro/Flickr

As human development continues to encroach on nature, there’s now a proven solution for how wildlife and highways can peacefully co-exist. Wildlife crossings are commonly used to protect the migration […]

“And so is the type of great men that shaped European history a very particular figure: half warrior, half statesman...” –Richard Wilhelm, 1922. MOST scholars believe themselves to be a […]

   

The trouble with labeling everything a "fallacy" is that (1) not all poor reasoning is automatically fallacious, and (2) it implies that everybody would agree on everything if we could only think correctly.

It’s fine to celebrate success, but more important are the lessons of failure.

This just in from Ukraine: President Yanukovych has sacked the country's armed forces chief, has agreed a 'truce' with the three main opposition leaders, and wants to start 'negotiations' to […]

Facebook Messenger has been getting destroyed in Europe and emerging markets. That's the reason behind Facebook's eye-popping $19 billion purchase of messaging service WhatsApp, announced Wednesday. As TechCrunch points out: […]

Pussy Riot members, preparing to perform on a public plaza in Sochi on Wednesday, were quickly stopped by a militia of Russian cossacks. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, recently freed from prison, was […]

       

The idea of sitting directly across from George Zimmerman would induce a visceral reaction in many. Yet this polarizing figure has numerous supporters as well—his first painting reportedly sold for […]

If we knew all we do about math and physics, but had never seen the heavens, what would we conclude? “Both the solutions must be rejected, and as these are […]

Want indestructible skin that can withstand bullets? Scientists are experimenting with one of the toughest natural materials found on earth: spider silk. One day soon we can all be Spider-Man, […]

NASA scientists have been trying to figure out a mystery dating back to the Apollo moon missions, according to the Mother Nature Network. They may be closer to understanding what […]

CHINA has always been a ‘living sage culture’. A ‘culture without sages’, on the other hand, was a culture that lacked a profound respect for relationships – the relationships among […]

According to an article published yesterday in Popular Mechanics based on an article published this week in Current Biology, a new application named "Ultimeyes" has been created that can train […]

The first-annual Praxis Chutzpah Comment of the Year Award goes to Charles Macheers, a man who is brazen enough to call retrograde discrimination “civilized” and decry “discrimination” while pushing a bill that would allow bigots to exercise their bigotry with impunity.

The only thing possibly worse than facing a creative blank is facing a creative overload—to find yourself drowning in a sea of influences with no guiding life preserver in sight. […]

Internet neutrality stands for everything we hold sacred: from freedom of information to freedom of expression. Let's be clear about this--from raising awareness of human rights crises to crowd-funding projects […]