Stills from the video of the tragic derailment.

Who elected young college graduates the kings and queens of language?

University of California’s Paul Piff led a series of experiments that delved into the behavior associated with the rising income inequality in the United States.  What he found was incredibly […]

Ray Kurzweil is singularly sure about The Singularity.

Developed by Raytheon, the helium aerostats will hover at 10,000 feet and can see up to 320 miles in any direction. Unlike ground-based systems, they can provide warnings to military personnel minutes, rather than seconds, in advance.

The pocket-sized breathalyzer uses sensors to measure and calculate acetone levels -- a key indicator of fat breakdown -- and sends data to a smartphone app within 10 seconds.

Do you ever stay up late and then curse yourself the next morning when your alarm clock wakes you up? Jerry Seinfeld has the same problem. He’s got a pretty […]

If it runs Android, you can install an app, created by designers at the University of California-Berkeley, that will let the phone crunch data during downtime.

A built-in webcam captures the person's face, then tweaks the expression using software. Tests showed that subjects were more likely to "like" a garment when they saw themselves smiling in the mirror.

Virginia Military Institute professors have designed a rover that attracts and kills ticks as it crosses an area. Tests show a kill rate of between 75 and 100 percent.

For five months out of every year, the citizens of Rjukan live in the shadow of neighboring mountains. That won't be the case this year.

Would you kill a baby if you knew he would grow up to be Hitler?

To truly help developing societies, we need to answer their immediate needs. 

We are sitting on "an economic time bomb."

Is abortion the most futile policy debate ever? Sometimes I wish the entire country would enter collective, premature menopause just to end it, already. The anti-abortion initiatives and state laws […]

I’ve come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor. 

This is the basis of what we call creativity: not a deus ex machina scrawling on a tabula rasa, but the mind’s constant search for interesting new ways of grouping the data we’re constantly taking in.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being.  

As an artist I’m more excited then scared about how it’s going to affect the business model or my bottom line. 

It doesn’t take a study to explain that being better able to listen to and understand others will make you more successful in your career and your relationships.