Illustrations of the wonders of weightlessness by the artist Graham Booth. 

“Competition creates efficiency,” is preached as if it were a law of nature. But nature itself teaches a different lesson.

"I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university."- Jay McInerney (born on this date in 1956)

Over the past century a war has been fought in universities around the world which has resulted in countless bottles of red ink spilled over students' work, in the form […]

The best cinematic live-action adaptation of one of the silliest, most addictive mobile games I’ve ever seen! “My name is Robert and I can’t stop thinking about ninjas. These guys are […]

How an iconic athlete, actor and role model took the world by storm in a way you’ve probably never seen before! “I’m going to fight if you touch me or hurt […]

"We practically know the West like the palm of our hand, but the West’s vision of the East is still a murky confusion. It is thus self-evident who would hold […]

USScience Magazine excludes Chinese terminologies from its publications If the shengren isn’t science, what in China is? The shengren is the single most important concept in the Chinese tradition. Yet, […]

Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.

The challenge we have in a democracy is that we can change our minds depending on which party is in power. 

Constrains, willingness to fail, willingness to take big risks and rapid iteration are absolutely fundamental to innovation. 

Peter Diamandis: It's really when you combine AI & Robotics together that you have magic happening.

God doesn’t answer back.  That’s the problem.  Humans can.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The change we are talking about for the Muslim world is essentially a change where we hope that Muslim individuals will be emancipated from their own concept of a God, submission to the will of Allah. 

In order to put the right economic policies in place, we need a generally well-educated public who understand the value of these policies in the first place.  

If you are in the business of trying to convince a majority of Americans, you know, 60 votes in the Senate, for example, to try to do the right thing, you probably ought to be appealing to self-interest here, not self-sacrifice. 

It’s known as the Mpemba effect, and it’s been observed as far back as Aristotle. But hot water really can sometimes freeze faster than cold, and the science of why […]

Prisoners are strongly influenced by the self-enhancement motive (i.e., the desire to see themselves in positive light)...no matter what objective circumstances might be.

For one thing, if you upload your brain to a supercomputer you will have a backup copy of your bioself and you could make unlimited copies.

How one of the most interesting molecules on Earth behaves in the zero-gravity, zero-pressure environment of outer space. “Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as […]