Paris, France is just too real for some tourists to handle. This results in Japanese tourists getting sick, and seeking therapy because of unmet expectations. 

Bottoms ups! A Southern Calfornia brewery is taking its beer from toilet to tap. San Diego's Stone Brewing has started making Full Circle Pale Ale using treated sewage water and recently held a tasting. While Bill Gates has shown that drinking "poop water" is perfectly fine, will consumers chug down this beer?   

What did Nikola Tesla or Bertrand Russell think of fewer working hours? Can a good life only come from work — and if so how much of it, and what kind?

When a quantum interaction happens, one interpretation leads to an infinite number of parallel Universes. Here’s how that could be true. “As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with […]

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the nature of time and the conundrums of time travel in a recent interview.

If you cloned yourself perfectly, would the clone have the same mind? At the heart of this question is an investigation into what – and where – consciousness is.

"Shut up and take my money" isn't just a meme anymore, it's the way people are increasingly choosing to access art, news, and culture.

When galaxy clusters merge together, they form the largest objects the Universe will ever create. “On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in […]

In March 2017, the New Zealand government made history by passing the Te Awa Tupua Bill.

Australia could soon ban unvaccinated children from attending preschools nationwide. 

A new study explains why and how people choose to avoid information and when that strategy could be beneficial.

America's most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.

The beloved honeybee has more in common with vertebrates that anyone thought.  

A new study from Johns Hopkins University supports making birth control pills available without a prescription.

A Swiss scientist identifies the top predator in the world in a new study.

Knowing the details of genetic variance may help improve personalized medicine.   

A new study reveals the positive effect being vegetarian can have on the production of greenhouse gases.

Space is getting bigger, but atoms, humans, Earth and our Milky Way stay the same size. How is this possible? “The Universe is expanding the way your mind is expanding. […]

Political correctness can go the f*ck to sleep, says Adam Mansbach. The term has been co-opted by so many social factions that it's more of a hindrance to the cause of respect than a help.

If you're not doing relational thinking, you're not really thinking, says psychotherapist Esther Perel. Understanding how complementarity between people and partners works is critical to success.