Data exhaust could save your life. 

The great elephant in the room in the health care discussion is the huge cost of keeping alive those already in the final stages of life.  Is there a better way to approach this, or to even discuss it?  Right now, we are doing neither.

This image is an extremely unique solar eclipse, taken from space and revealing the Moon's shadow on the Earth's surface. 

Why do people become teachers and how do we attract the best teachers to the profession? 

It's "solemn nonsense" to try to convert nonbelievers to Christianity, said Pope Francis. Or so we think. 

This video animation gives us a tantalizing glimpse into one proposed method for asteroid retrieval, which would serve as a stepping stone for future missions to asteroids.

An Oxford University study looked at how susceptible jobs are to computerization, and found that "about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk."

The most striking thing you will notice is the peanut shape of the central bulge of the galaxy, as viewed from a different perspective than we get from Earth. 

The National Zoo tweeted that live cameras on animals - including the popular 'Giant Panda Cam' - have been deemed non-essential in the wake of the government shutdown. 

The wonderful time-lapse video below records Perseid meteors above Canada. But it also contains a mystery.

There's nothing new under the sun, or, to put it another way, there is nothing new about Twitter's 140-character format for microblog posts.

The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice based on a desire not to see your past investment go to waste.

Is it pure dumb luck that we have not had an accident involving nuclear weapons? In fact, we have had many such accidents. 

"The more players that want to create original content and finance it," Littlefield says, "the more exciting it is in the world of ideas."

What would make a quantum computer so powerful is the ability to do many computations at same time.

The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they're at a point now where we can actually see individual interneural connections forming and firing.

The unemployment rate is high among young people, but much higher among the young of the working class.  What does this mean for the future of what we used to think of as "adulthood."

While Francis points the finger at leaders who have been "obsessed" with divisive social issues, some find his silence on these issues to be problematic.

How is it that certain clothes give us more confidence, so much confidence, in fact, that we find ourselves performing better when wearing them?

Why does the original pronunciation (OP) of Shakespeare's words matter? For one thing, two-thirds of Shakespeare's sonnets have rhymes that don't work in modern English.