Kids also need to be taught technology habits to get the most out of the Internet.

Even though we can’t see individual galaxies past a certain point, we know they’re there. Here’s the first evidence. “Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some […]

I'm a granola-eating hippie liberal, and I kind of admire Carly Fiorina. What happens when we like a person, but hate their politics?

Futurists never imagined the humble bicycle would be the transportation trend of the 21st century. Nor that our smart devices could be making us dumber.

A philosophy school with a $1 million dollar prize believes that knowledge truly is power.

It's possible to develop the areas of your brain that control feelings such as kindness, as well as the regulation of difficult emotions. In this way, you can train your brain to be a tougher guard against negativity.

The things that create stress in our lives are also the things that create meaning.

If you live in China, Finland, or Switzerland, you could be closer to receiving your packages from flying robots. Meanwhile, the FAA is not taking action on drone regulation.

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out in order to help gay young people do the same. But what if every LGBT public figure had the same bravery?

In a world where we all eat fake meat — and so stop breeding domesticated livestock — the animals happiness we prize could simply disappear.

Both Germany and Sweden, two countries that have accepted a large proportion of asylum seekers, also have strong economies.

“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!” That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future.  

"Heaps Good" is Australian slang, not some DC hipster band

The rise of China. The power of Russia. The spread of ISIS. Are Western values (i.e. democracy, human rights, and popular sovereignty) losing their influence in the world?

Mark Zuckerberg flip-flops on a feature he once described as not "socially valuable."

Self-driving cars aren't the only emerging technology facing major questions about ethics and accountability.

Carly Fiorina is rising in the polls and raising Donald Trump's ire, likely resulting in a Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robot Edition of the GOP debates.

First-of-its-kind CO2 air-capture demo plant is about to be completed in Canada. 

Lately, we’ve become so infatuated with creating the next big thing, rushing headlong into crafting new technologies that we’ve neglected to think through the ethics of it. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

Your grandparents got way more nutrition out of their vegetables.