What if your car was an extension of yourself? Neuroscience, art, and engineering combine to give us a glimpse of that future.

A Duke University study that found over 40 percent of our actions aren’t actually decisions, but habits. Here's how to build good ones. 

From its symbolism within the Seven Kingdoms, to its political allegory for all of us beyond it, the season seven finale is an epic set-up for the final showdown.

Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]

Our brains can do some pretty weird things to us sometimes. These prove it.   

Robotics is already changing how we live, shop, invest, travel, and soon, robo-caregivers will transform how we provide care. AI will deliver extraordinarily innovative services in support of our loved ones, but the use of robots to care for our children, elderly and disabled will also give rise to some very human questions.  

Nietzsche loved aphorisms, and here we have collected 15 of his greatest hits.

AI might be coming for many of the jobs in the future. But not this kind, and not ever. Here's why.

Another week, another selection of the wittiest and most chin-strokingly interesting comments from our Facebook audience. 

Scientists solve the mystery of an ancient Babylonian tablet, rewriting history. They think the tablet has much to teach us.

In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.   

A new study reveals a worldwide moral prejudice against atheists.

Albert Einstein's famous thought experiments led to groundbreaking ideas.

All's fair in love and cartography

Your brain doesn't have a watch. It doesn't know hours or minutes—but it does understand cause and effect. And it uses this in a way to figure out time.

When matter falls in, black holes grow. But Hawking radiation says that black holes decay. Who wins? “Maybe that is our mistake: maybe there are no particle positions and velocities, but […]

As a young man, Bryan Cranston spent almost two years traveling the country and figuring out what he wanted to do. It helped shape who his is more than any other time in his life.

New research brings nuance to the concept of being nice by illuminating the personality traits that underlie it, dividing the quality into two related but distinct components.

The world’s largest oil and gas company may be its own worst enemy.   

Scientists from the department of NanoEngineering at the University of California San Diego were able to successfully use chemically-powered micromotors to deliver antibiotics in the gut of a mouse and […]