Even if Berlusconi leaves the soon, he will leave behind a toxic legacy, one in which the media cynically undermine democratic norms and women have been robbed of their dignity.

The next big thing that will rock the Internet: machine to machine (M2M for short) connectivity. It's machines rather than people connecting to the Internet.

Research on facial recognition suggests meaningful changes occur during early and middle adulthood. Should we rethink what we believe about cognitive development and aging?

The White House touts as tight-fisted a budget proposing a record $1.645 trillion deficit for fiscal 2011, due largely to a new surge in spending to 25.3% of GDP.

All three kinds appear among the new books about the Internet: call them the Never-Betters, the Better-Nevers, and the Ever-Wasers.

I eat out of bins too. So what? Freegans know the best use of leftover food is to eat it – why arrest a woman for picking up discarded waffles?

How to gauge how sound the academic mainstream in a given field is likely to be, and how justified one would be to dismiss contrarians out of hand.

The coming integration of humans and machines may be a bit further off than he thinks, but Michael Chorost convinced me that we will get there someday.

As intellectuals go, B.F. Skinner was pretty dismissive of intellectuals—at least the insufficiently hard-nosed and scientific ones who blathered unproductively about "freedom" and "dignity."

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy highlights a new postindustrial reality: Population counts as much as productivity in determining economic power.

The last time valuations soared so high for companies like Groupon and Facebook with modest track records, or no track records, the trend line heralded the dot-com crash.

What happens when a Hollywood heartthrob and the art world collide? Berlin is about to find out as it plays host to James Franco's first ever commercial gallery show.

The funny thing about all these frothy millions and billions piling up around social media sites and The Huffington Post? Most of the value was created by people working free.

This week, Watson takes on humans at "Jeopardy!" But how close are we to a computer that thinks? Google's director of research explains how far we've come.

Will a Middle Eastern oil disruption crush the economy? New research suggests the answer is no—and that a major tenet of American foreign policy may be fundamentally wrong.

Besides making cities more affordable and architecturally interesting, tall buildings are greener than sprawl, and they foster social capital and creativity.

Among the newly proposed federal budget cuts is $1.1 billion from the Department of Energy Office of Science which funds the majority of physics research at universities and national labs.

Is the exchange of amorous declarations between partners now forever delegated to the insulting greetings card and the wholly unpassionate email?

In this video from Al Jazeera English, foreign affairs specialist Michael Binyon explains how history and geography will influence future uprisings in the Middle East.

This Valentine's Day Nobel prize-winning economist Michael Spence explains how the concept of economic signaling can help you nab your true love—whether or not you're Lloyd Dobbler from 80s romance flick "Say Anything."