Our clean energy needs to be sourced responsibly right from the get-go.

In one Indian farming district, many women are paying for expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies in order to be more productive at work.

"A serious party neglects the underlying virtues of playfulness and generosity that make a party authentic."

Combined with high-capacity public transport, AVs could remove 9 out of every 10 cars in a mid-sized European city.

It’s not volcanic activity, and it’s definitely not from a fire. Mars, our red planetary neighbor, is a vastly different world from Earth. Mars and Earth, to scale, shows how much […]

Someday we'll beam to the moon for afternoon tea, and be back in New York for dinner.

What if there's no extraterrestrial life anywhere in the universe?

Construction of the $500 billion dollar tech city-state of the future is moving ahead.

Research from MIT reveals common habits and skills present among highly productive managers.

Here's how to harness the sunlight, even if you're sitting in an office all day.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow's friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.

With the ivory trade on the decline, poachers have been capitalizing on a new, disturbing trend.

If philosophers don't try to mesh their long-held views with new scientific insights, then we have a problem.

Researchers discover government agencies use facial recognition software on photos from local DMVs.

UNHCR data shows a small but intriguing flow of refugees from countries like France, Germany and the UK

Picking up the thread of a conversation they started two decades ago in Jerusalem, with some help from Lenny Bruce, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and other influences along the way, host Jason Gots and Williams College professor Jeffrey Israel go deep on private grievances, public life, and where the two overlap.

It's strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.

Cheese is one of the latest products to be used to create biogas.

And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]

What you eat — and when — can make you superhuman.