Although Twitter is hailed as a democratic medium for the dissemination of marginalized political views, experts have found that it is mostly an echo chamber for the opinions expressed by elite television personalities. 

Mindfulness meditation works on the brain by decoupling regions that have tended to function together.

A vast reservoir of water exists beneath the Earth's surface, enough to fill the oceans three times over, say a team of American scientists who have produced the first direct evidence of the water.

Far from questing after the fame and fortune that often accompanies state-sanctioned power, Mujica prefers to live quietly with his wife and their three-legged dog in a farm house.

Planners once thought that building more and wider roads was the solution, but a new study out of California finds that 90% of any new road capacity will be swallowed up by traffic within just five years.

The World Cup begins tomorrow and the United States, simultaneously famous for its cultural diversity and its exclusive use of the word "soccer", is having something of an identity crisis.

What we are more often presented with than not--from the realm of politics to the grocery store aisle--is a phony array of options that adversely affects our individual and collective psychology.