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Yahoo's decision to hire Marissa Mayer, a high-ranking Google employee who is also pregnant, came as a surprise to the tech industry but stands to increase women's profile in the workplace.
When human biology becomes indistinguishable from its machine parts, in an event known as the Singularity, we will transcend human intelligence, but will we also transcend our feelings?
Social and mobile networking tools are helping to build financially-independent communities by facilitating informal trading markets. The services are a response to international banking crises.
In order to solve America's faltering economy, we must understand its causes. For University of Chicago business school professor Raghuram Rajan, it was an eviscerating of the middle class.
The American economy is capable of rebounding, thanks to government protection of property rights and a risk-taking culture. But what should the next president do to help?
Modern relationships have become ambivalent, insecure and indeterminate, says sociologist and professional student of modern love, Eva Illouz. Could BDSM really be a solution?
A German court has effectively criminalized male circumcision, and while the ruling is not binding on any other body, debate over religious and individual freedom has erupted.
The pace of Chinese economic growth is slowing and wages are increasing. As the economy matures, transitioning to service industries and importing more goods, the West stands to gain.
Scientists argue the courtroom is a bad place for brain scans to serve as evidence because they cannot assess the full guilt of an individual. Other developments are changing how we think of justice.
Previously thought to be simply the glue binding the brain's neurons, glial cells have proven an important regulator of THC and therefore an important part of how conscious memory works.
The nation's leading criminologist warns that rising global temperature seed the ground for crime. Threats to livelyhood and large-scale migrations help create deprivation and discrimination.
Researchers have found that adolescents who actively search for a personal identity are more likely to describe themselves in consistent and positive terms, reinforcing their values.
For college grads entering a thinner job market saddled with debt and older adults trying to return to the workplace after a long hiatus, training yourself to be optimistic could only help.
Will humans ever run 100 meters in under 9 seconds? Usain Bolt is the world's best opportunity yet to see just how far our biological limits can be bent by training and nutrition.
Harvard medical researchers have discovered how some cancer cells develop resistance to targeted therapy treatments. The study concludes that a one-drug approach is insufficient.
A rare mutation on a gene long associated with Alzheimer's seems to prevent the disease from forming. Scientists want to make a drug that mimics the specific mutation.
While eugenics is most certainly morally dubious, it simply does not work at a practical level. Any strategy to decrease genetic diversity in humans would make us less able to survive change.
The controversial biologist Craig Venter believes his team of scientists will create synthetic life within a year. Venter says the Earth's booming population depends on such advancements.
Despite the triumph of the individual in Western culture, society still determines what love is and how it can be gotten. Unfortunately, our modern view of love is set up to cause us pain.
The culture of corruption that Penn State's weighty football program created must either be dissolved or dedicated to healing the school's wounds, which will mean fielding a losing team.