In some (not all) cases, lower back pain may actually stem from bacterial infection.

Amid the controversy surrounding 3D printed firearms, writer Cory Doctorow fears that the larger discussions regarding regulation of new and potentially problematic technologies will be clouded over by arguments over gun rights.

A couple of years ago Dr Mirjam Tuk won an IgNobel prize for the paper “Inhibitory Spill-Over: Increased Urinating Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains" in Psychological Science. Tuk […]

One of the country's leading service providers has announced plans to apply the same kinds of data access limits to its Internet customers as it does to mobile users.

Estimates suggest that nearly a quarter of the world's youth, aged 15 to 24, are out of work. While some do not seek work for cultural reasons, most find their skills are mismatched to the economy.

Even securing the most basic humanitarian rights for Syrian refugees would require committing tens of thousands of ground troops and escalating the conflict to global levels, say security experts.

Marriage has become a temporary link-up of working people who choose to spend some free time together. The model is not well-adapted to down times, and both parents and children lose out.

Mike Taylor over at the Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week blog created the wonderful flowchart above to help researchers decide whether to post in an open access journal. A few months […]

Update 13/05/13 12PM: The Guardian have now corrected the article to place David Eagleman's quote in appropriate context. 1.55PM: The paragraph has now been cut completely with the following note "A paragraph that […]

With the cultural theories of the '90s in decline, the humanities have begun picking up on neuroscience as the newest way of understanding how we relate to the world. But will it be good for art?

A number of new neuroscience projects, combined with an important theory about how the mind works from infancy, may facilitate large advances in artificial intelligence in the years ahead.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. When logic puzzles are presented in the context of stories, far more people recognize their essential elements than without context.

We all want to help our friends and loved ones but sociologists have found that helping too much—substituting our efforts for the efforts of those we're trying to help—tends to blunt their chance of success.

When people participate in market transactions, their moral standards fall substantially, supporting behavior they claim to oppose, such as child labor or meat production involving cruelty to animals.

My opinion is that IBM’s Watson computer is able to answer questions, and so, in my subjective view, that qualifies as intelligence.

A clean environment should not be a luxury.  It should be what people’s rights are as humans.

The lesson of the experiments of the last few years is that the standard model of particle physics as it was in the mid 70s is perfectly adequate. 

We are very, very wired to spread ideas and that’s where the power of human innovation comes from.

The magic of an orchestra is when everybody suddenly gets the same thing at the same moment. 

Life didn't come with a guidebook! We write it as we go along, and sometimes we fudge it!