We may pay a price for abstract thinking.   

There’s a point beyond which we cannot go, there are things beyond that we cannot know. But here’s what we expect. “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it […]

Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?

Stephen M. Walt, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, tackles some seemingly non-controversial statements about human rights, democracy, and international law.

A new study indicates that the brain can detect and help avoid diseases in others through the senses of sight and smell alone.

Russian hacking is changing the game in global warfare by taking the battlefield to the internet, where Facebook is the front line.

Elon Musk and many top CEOs condemned President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Genetic changes in Egypt might have been caused by trade routes. 

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Writer Ariel Levy on the silence around the animal facts of women's physical lives, her comically awkward experience with the shamanic hallucinogen Ayahuasca, and much more.   

It’s not too late to change course, but we’re headed in the wrong direction faster than ever now. “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt […]

Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don't have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?

Known as Cunningham's Law, it is the assertion that "the best way to get a right answer on the internet is to post a wrong answer." It turns out our impulse to correct a wrong online may outweigh our desire to merely give answers. 

It’s durable, exponentially scalable, and it’ll last millennia, if not millions of years.  

That's a big yes, as an incredible new study from University of Melbourne researchers found.

New study suggests chronic sleep-deprivation causes overactivity in the brain’s self-cleaning mechanism, leading to the destruction of healthy cells.

NASA’s Earth observing missions aren’t the only casualty. Arguably, eliminating education is even more egregious. “First Rate People hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people.” -Hermann […]

NASA announces the details of its mission to the sun, set to launch in 2018.

Career global security expert Richard Clarke identifies three potential game changing events that could adversely affect the wellbeing of humanity itself.

Hitler appeared to have been highly sensitive to disgust, and research shows this trait is linked to numerous dimensions of ideology.

Some scientists posit that our brains are actually quantum computers.