Toxic chemicals affect developing brains much more severely than they do adult brains, and researchers now recognize that the months spent in the womb are the most crucial time for brain development.

The post-recession workforce is threadbare. Increased competition as well as additional professional expectations have created a wide net of disinterested employees throughout the United States.

Google's prototype for a completely automated car radically changes the driving experience from actively controlling the vehicle to removing even the option of steering, accelerating, or braking.

Just as automated assembly lines have replaced manual labor, the looming question for future economies is that of the labor market. How many of our current jobs will be replaced by machines? 

Teenage monkeys tended to drink more fermented sugar cane than their elders. Researchers hypothesize that older monkeys drink less because of "monkey politics".  

Insight--that eureka moment when a new idea appears like a bolt from the blue--is the most essential characteristic of creativity. Without insight, there simply can be no creativity.

A new study from noted biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University has measured the rate at which species are currently going extinct and concludes that the plant is on the brink of a sixth massive extinction of plant and animal life.