A study which constructed a faux business deal has found that women are more frequently lied to in negotiations than men. Added to that, men are more likely to be given insider information 

Sociologist Carl Stemple argues that upper middle class Americans avoid "excessive displays of strength," viewing the bodybuilder look as vulgar overcompensation for wounded manhood.

The long-term costs of ignoring climate change will dwarf those caused by cutting carbon emissions in the short term, according to a new report released by the President's council of economic advisors.

The Times joined a growing chorus of federalists and anti-prohibitionists when its editorial board recently called for the federal government to defer to state law on the marijuana question.

Any human population sent from Earth to colonize another planet--whether it be Mars, a moon of Jupiter, or a rock beyond our solar system--should number from 20,000 to 40,000 people. 

"At a starting price of around $35,000, a third of the cost of a top-range Model S, Tesla wants the car to compete against the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedans."

Widener University's Dr. Hal Shorey has put forward five suggestions we can all take to keep a normal argument from turning into relationship poison.

Experts say it could be decades before autonomous cars are ready for cities. 

Some have theorized powerful people lack empathy because they do not need the less-powerful to access important resources. But contemporary neuroscientists have a different explanation.

While theism continues to unite the vast majority of the world's population, westerners of a certain age have never before accepted atheism with such enthusiasm.

Google and contact lens maker Novartis have teamed up to create a contact lens that measure glucose levels in the eye with a device--about the size of a speck of glitter--that takes chemical readings.

Sleep researchers are finding ways you can take advantage of your brain while you sleep. You won't master a foreign language overnight but you can consolidate the knowledge you learned during the day.

In the style of Silicon Valley start ups, a group of engineers under the name Tri Alpha Energy have successfully raised $150 million in venture capital to build a fusion reactor.

Columbia grad and former Yale professor William Deresiewicz is making waves with a sizable invective against his alma maters, as well as other Ivy League institutions.

"[M]aybe decades or millenniums from now — here or someplace yet to be imagined — science on Earth, circa 2014, will look like nothing more than a good start."

Half of computer programmers surveyed by the Financial Times expect machines to outsmart humans by 2040, and a stunning 90 percent expect this "superinteliigence" to emerge by 2075.

In response to widespread protest, including an appeal from the United Nations, the city of Detroit has granted a two-week reprieve to residents who are more than two months past-due on their municipal water bills.

Creating and maintaining social relationships is perhaps the distinguishing feature of human intelligence, say contemporary archeologists. And it’s this feature that allowed humans to prosper.

It's only natural to want to know why things went wrong, but to know why things went right takes a different kind of persistence, says Cinnabon president Kat Cole.

It's long been held that eight hours is the magic number when it comes to sleeping, but that number clashes with reality--when's the last time you got a solid eight hours?