A religious person without a sense of humor? That's a dangerous combination.

The Repair Cafe movement was started in the Netherlands in 2009 to allow people to bring in their goods to be fixed by volunteers for free. There are now over 1200 Repair Cafes throughout the world. Should you start one?

And if you’re experiencing it consistently, you just might be doing it wrong all along. “I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over […]

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson releases an emotional video on the state of science in America.

If you want to know the state of equality in the US, statistics are a good place to start.

One of CRISPR-cas9’s inventors has just announced the arrival of an inexpensive, portable diagnostic tool: SHERLOCK.

Stanford University is offering medical trainees a real-time virtual tour through heart defects. 

The program picked up association biases nearly identical to those seen in human subjects.  

A new genetic test could improve the palm oil industry and reduce deforestation.

When we think about a long-term solution to our energy needs, none of today’s options are this good. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would […]

The belief that things will be better in the future is called optimism bias. Being overly optimistic can lead you to miss an important health check up or make bad financial decisions.

Luck doesn't receive enough credit. 

Life is a temporary, cosmic accident and the universe may very well be meaningless. That's depressing — or is it?

Forget everything you think you learned on your favorite crime scene drama.   

Will moisture farming be the next big cash crop of the 21st century? 

Tesla's market cap surpassed that of GM and Ford on April 10, 2017.

There’s really something new there, even if physicists forget. “Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” -Ludwig Borne In 1998, two teams of scientists announced a shocking […]

The world's most populated country has had its fair share of great minds. Here, we take a quick look at ten thinkers you might not have thought about. 

Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn

'Deep learning' AI should be able to explain its automated decision-making—but it can't. And even its creators are lost on where to begin.