It is no secret that the late rock musician Kurt Cobain felt alienated growing up. But a recently released animated video, which illustrates a lost interview he gave in 1993, reveals surprising insights about the rage he felt as a teenager and how he came to express it in punk rock. 

Public health campaigns have been ineffective. So the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued a grand challenge to design "a next-generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure."

The FCC is considering a proposal that would allow "airborne calls and cellular data use by passengers once a flight reaches 10,000 feet," while maintaining restrictions during takeoff and landing.

Have we already reached peak car? This is the term that urban planners are using to describe the decline in vehicle miles traveled per person. 

We are so conditioned to relating to others in adversarial terms that we seldom think of how futile that is as an everyday code of conduct. 

An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money - $1 million per mile - as a seawall. But when you consider other factors outside of cost, the oyster reef wins by a mile.  

The mission would have to take advantage of next alignment of Earth and Mars, which occurs in 2017. Miss that window and we'll have to wait another 15 years to take advantage of the orbital dynamics of the planets, which significantly reduce the distance and cost of the trip. 

While harkening back to our hunter-gather ancestors may be good nutrition, it’s not necessarily good thinking. 

Early humans lived in a world that one evolutionary geneticist compared to the fantasy world of Lord of the Rings. Not only were there many hominid populations, but these populations interbred, contributing to the genetic diversity of modern humans.

This image is an artist's illustration of the 4U1630-47 star system featuring powerful jets emanating from a black hole candidate that is just a few times the mass of our sun. So what type of matter is contained in these jets?  

Neuroscientist Christof Koch proposes that consciousness is to be found in complex systems all around us. Therefore a dog, or a smaller animal like an earthworm, or even the Internet, all possess consciousness. 

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -Abraham Lincoln

Joel Primack: We’re about to cross a threshold "and have a complete understanding of the origin and the evolution of the universe."

In order to innovate and solve the grand challenges facing the world, according to the entrepreneur Jack Hidary, we need to do more than just simply produce more scientists.

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter launched yesterday, bringing with it a DVD containing over 1,100 hiakus. 

Mothers-in-law are the cause of sustained stress for more than 60 percent of married women.

This telephoto view from Kenya, captured on the morning of November 14, shows that Comet ISON has substantially increased in activity, surging to naked-eye visibility for dark sites and sprouting a more complex tail.

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." -Doris Lessing, 1919 – 2013  

When we fail to exercise self-control, this may not be a "failure" as we traditionally think of it. In fact, it may be "a reasoned response to the uncertainty of time.

The Leonid meteor shower will be visible, weather permitting, tonight through Monday, November 18. NASA and the SLOOH Space Camera are both offering live streams of the all-night show of the Leonid Meteor Shower.