The idea that "true happiness" is of a uniformly high emotional pitch, and our tendency to expect it from external things ironically ends up causing us a great deal of suffering. 

According to Singapore’s National Environment Agency, the city’s three-hour Pollutant Standards Index rose to an all-time high of 371. 

There is an economic imperative to have higher engagement at work, so why has it not changed?

Is this overkill: $30 billion for 40,000 border agents, 700 miles of fencing and aerial drones to guard the U.S.-Mexico border.

You can zoom in to the image and view an area of the Red Planet's Gale Crater in unprecedented detail. 

Monsanto executive Robert T. Fraley was awarded The World Food Prize for his work in developing genetically modified crops. 

Eric Swalwell is believed to be the first Congressman to vine a vote. 

Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Informatics have developed goggles that jam facial recognition systems. 

Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs? 

Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]

If the Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov has his way, we will be able to trade our bodies in forholograms and have computerized brains in 32 short years.  

Taking questions from readers online at The Guardian today, whistleblower Edward Snowden said the government can't stop the truth from getting out, even if he is jailed or murdered. 

“We’re seeing an unprecedented epidemic of depression in our society,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, “More people are being diagnosed with depression than ever, including millions of children.  The latest statistics […]

Beveridge did what he loved, followed his dream, and ended up beating the odds. Maybe his success is not such a fluke after all. 

We have a misconception that making things "isn’t knowledge work and it isn’t about ideas.

Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Myriad Genetics Inc. did not invent anything when it isolated two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. 

These tracks, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are thought to have been created from sliding dry ice on the Red Planet's Russell Crater. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall yesterday and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

Three Oxford academics will be stored after death at a cryogenic preservation facility until technology catches up.