If you have an upcoming interview or presentation in front of your colleagues, the best advice is not to "keep calm and carry on," despite popular wisdom.

All across the US this summer, paintings by American artists will replace advertisements for the widgets you probably don't need anyway.

Similar to how affection-detecting machines were used in the film Blade Runner, the Brazilian researchers' methods could possibly be used to anticipate crime.

Just as the Slow Food Movement criticized the inferior quality of fast food, the emerging Slow Science Movement says the rate at which scientists are pressured to publish makes for low quality science.

New software applications that aim to organize your inbox, which can at times grow like a malignant tumor, take different approaches to simplifying how you send and receive mail.

It was twenty years ago that researchers first proposed the idea of rapidly inducing hypothermia to buy time for surgeons whose patients were bleeding out on the operating table.

At 3pm local time today, all Americans must observe Memorial Day with a moment of silence, or so says a little observed law passed by the Congress in 2000.

Wright wanted to give people the option to escape the city at a moment's notice, but today there is no escape, at least there is no outside to escape to. But what about escaping to the inside?

After an encounter with someone on the periphery of your life, you may be given to imagining how wonderful they are, how their gentle confidence and remarkable jaw line are suddenly very desirable.

A network of doctors in Washington DC have begun officially prescribing their patients an ancient form of preventative medicine: exercise.

Thought you were doing right by buying organic produce, eating fat-free chocolate, and trying vegan mayonnaise? Think again, capitalist dog!

The world's most famous scientist has withdrawn from an annual conference to be hosted by Israel's president, Shimon Peres, citing Israel's mistreatment of neighboring Palestinians as the cause.

Perhaps the good among us should get a little tougher, defend ourselves more, and fear negative consequences less.

An imbalance of gut bacteria may play an important role in America's obesity problem, in addition to its addiction to innutritious food and sedentary lifestyles. 

"Research indicates that higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reduced the protein content in wheat, for example."  

If you want to win an argument, rather than assault your opponent with your superior knowledge, it is better to listen to him or her and ask follow up questions that require more specificity about the position in question.

Using fossil records to measure cranial capacity through the millennia, researchers have found that as we become increasingly domesticated as a species, the size of our brain continues to shrink.

The herbicide used to rid wheat and soy products of diseases that limit crop yields are increasingly associated with a host of illnesses.

Nearly every society has vastly more wealth today than ever before. So why doesn't the world's burgeoning wealth afford its citizens more leisure time?

The FBI's zero-tolerance drug use policy for new hires is costing the Bureau dearly, according to FBI Director James B Comey, who is having trouble staffing the 2,000 posts of a newly-created cybercrime unit.