To create a happy family, you don’t need some big, new scheme that’s going to be hard to set up and impossible to follow. 

One learns habits — good or bad — implicitly, without thinking about them. 

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." -Robert Louis Stevenson (born on this day in 1850)  

Is the frequency of extreme weather events a sign that global warming is gaining pace and exceeding predictions?

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Auguste Rodin 

It's difficult to wrap your head around the scale of destruction that was caused by Super-Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense tropical cyclones in history. Satellite images released by NASA and other agencies provide some perspective.

As we get older, our brain is more of a lean machine that is optimized to do things well. The tradeoff is that we are "not nearly as good at learning something new."

Megan Smith talks about the role technologies like mobile and the Internet play in giving a voice to billions of people who up until this point had none.

There are potentially a lot more discoveries to be made within our oceans, with as little as 5% of it explored so far. 

"Eclipse watchers" have been dying to catch a glimpse of this image, captured in clear skies in central Africa, which depicts the Sun's total eclipse on November 3. 

How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today? 

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus  

One hundred years ago, your doctor was responsible for your health. Now, thanks to technology, we're at the point where we can all be the CEO of our own health.

According to some experts, trans fats won't be that difficult to replace.

A new study demonstrates how a group can complement and "average out" one’s unattractive idiosyncrasies.

"Our dominance is assured, at least for a while, by the excruciating nested complexity of the biological components-within-components-within-components of the human brain."

Kepler-78b, which is slightly larger than Earth, is the most similar in size to the Earth of any exoplanet yet directly discovered. However, the similarities end there. 

I believe imagination was a God-given tool says, Rainn Wilson in the XPRIZE Insights video below. Wilson sees arts education, therefore, as an empowering tool, which "helps define a person for who they are in their integral self."

Artists have an implicit understanding of a universal biological principle: "people have limited attentional resources."

According to a new study, the number of planets in our galaxy that could potentially support life as we know it could be as high as 40 billion.