Researchers found kids will assault a robot, even when it pleads for its abusers to stop.

Pope Francis's moving plea to save life on Earth from a dystopian future calls on people to sacrifice some material comfort, live more modestly, and recognize that we share a common home and have a responsibility to the future. Given the nature of the human instinct to survive and prioritize ourselves over others and the immediate over the future … good luck with that, your Holiness.

Meet the mischievous computer whizzes who started it all.

Help enact behavioral change by adding a step on the scale to your daily routine and charting your progress.

Catch MIT scientist Sara Seager take you to the cutting edge and into the future, with a live blog (plus commentary) right here! “Hundreds or thousands of years from now, […]

Spiral galaxies have a skeleton-like structure that supports them. See the Milky Way’s first discovered bone! “The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached […]

Our anger over the murder of nine black church-going individuals in South Carolina is real and justified, but is it useful?

A whole new Jurassic World, where Disney princesses meet velociraptors. “A princess is many things, and a raptor is one of them.” –Laura Cooper It’s important to take time every […]

Words of wisdom from Cuban national hero José Martí: "A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them."

If you have to say "never forget," you've probably already forgotten.

What makes a great artist? According to French writer Émile Zola, it's talent coupled with tenacity.

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

Words of wisdom from the great composer and pioneer of ethnomusicology: "Competitions are for horses, not artists."

Words of wisdom from Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the founder of ethnomusicology: "In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."

Ninety years ago, America invented the Human Map, an art form now dominated by India.

Behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely has spent over 10 years researching human dishonesty. What are the different kinds of dishonesty? Why do we tell lies? How can one act of dishonesty escalate further?

A look at the implications of a promising discovery by researchers at Google.

Never a stranger to offbeat or unconventional wisdom, Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner explains why it's beneficial to pay politicians a high amount of money to encourage good behavior.

If all the random motions of the molecules inside aligned, how far and fast would it go? “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”-Bernard […]

Stress can be your friend, says psychologist Kelly McGonigal. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.