Search
In the wake of the Palestine Papers and the Egyptian uprising the "peace process" as we know it is dead. The myth persists, however, of "the deal that almost was".
It is time the scientific community became proactive in challenging misuse of scientific evidence. We must make evidence accessible and explicable, says the U.K.'s chief science advisor.
Facebook users with more friends suffer more stress and "neurotic limbo" from feeling they have to continually update and amuse their larger audiences, according to new research.
Why has the royal family of Bahrain allowed its soldiers to open fire at peaceful demonstrators? The heavy hand of Saudi Arabia may not be far away.
Brilliance in the morning: The New York Times had an absolutely wonderful op-ed today (some of you may have noticed that I have been strongly disagreeing with Victoria Clark's piece […]
Fat is not necessarily bad for dieters, says the obesity expert.
The Party of Spite strikes again. The Republican-controlled House voted Friday to de-fund not only Planned Parenthood, but all Title X funds for clinics that perform abortions: If the resolution […]
5mins
Journalist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and astronaut, Esther Dyson describes how the future of search will be verbs, not nouns, as people are looking to take direct action with their queries.
46mins
Deborah Schrag: A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.
4mins
The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]
3mins
Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?
8mins
The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
7mins
There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.
46mins
A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.
5mins
One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.
4mins
Deborah Schrag: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?
4mins
The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]
46mins
Breakthroughs: Cancer, the third in a three-part Big Think series on the major diseases of our time.
3mins
Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?
8mins
The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.