Although longer lifespans are widespread, they are not a given.

Are we witnessing the end of democracy in America?

For all the women in the world who never got the apology they needed, and all the men who haven't found the words, and above all for herself, Eve Ensler (THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES) wrote THE APOLOGY. In this searing, unflinching, often surprisingly funny conversation we talk about trauma, compassion, and what it means to apologize for real.

Forget the speed of light or the electron’s charge. This is the physical constant that really matters. Why is our Universe the way it is, and not some other way? There […]

Humans are hardwired to believe in nonsense, says Michio Kaku. So what can we do about it?

IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?

What does a fast-casual diner have to do with natural disasters? Quite a bit, actually.

Our clever human hands may soon be outdone.

What took hundreds of millions of years to create is being wasted on… party balloons? There’s a natural resource found beneath Earth’s surface that’s been building up for hundreds of […]

It will take a crack team of scientists, programmers and philosophers to cure the online hate pandemic.

From Godzilla to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, it's everywhere.

New research shows that aimlessness can be fatal.

New research on the devastating health effects of ultra-processed foods has some saying yes.

Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.

It makes no "makes no economic or energy sense."

A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.

Intense lightning could have burned us out of the trees.

 “Self-talk has been the biggest thing in my life,” says former Navy SEAL David Goggins. He knows he’s not alone. He also knows it’s largely, to use his words, “a […]

And if they exist, are there alternate-reality versions of you out there, too? You’ve likely imagined it before: another Universe out there, just like this one, where all the random events […]

The realism of video games takes storytelling to another level.