Everyone thinks they know how to make their brain more creative and have better ideas.

A startup with a $100 million investment wants to implant chips into human brains to enhance their abilities. 

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The first stars formed almost half a billion years before we could see their light. Here’s why. At the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was full of matter and […]

Religion as a belief system goes back hundreds of thousands of years. So why are so many of the religious peoples of today so focused on a supposed God that goes back only 5,000 years? The answer lies in how our brains work.

"It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do? "    

Scientists didn’t know why the sleep deprived experienced cognitive lapses, until now.

Breakthrough gene therapy allows doctors to replace 80% of an epidermolysis bullosa patient’s skin.

Kids say the darndest things. They're also far more adept at workflow management than adults are. What can we learn from them? 

A new report shows that the true costs of war are much higher than reported by the Pentagon.

How to overcome anxiety in a time that tries men's souls.

From millions of miles to millions of light years, there’s nothing else that leaves trails like this. When you point your telescope at the distant Universe, observing a faint, massive object […]

Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the "summer learning loss". Here's how we fix that.

Researchers believe they have enough evidence to support the “kelp highway hypothesis.”

One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn't wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]

And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.

In our modern, increasingly globalized world, organizations both large and small are being tasked with managing ever more diverse workforces. As our understanding of diversity evolves, we see it in […]

Do you know you Hangzhous from your Changzhous?

The differences between what you are and what you could be are stunning. The human body consists of somewhere around 1028particles, all bound together. The typical human has a mass […]

Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?