The real barrier to getting more women into leadership roles is the issue of time commitment. Companies that embrace values diversity and accommodate various time commitments will open doors to leadership for previously shut-out members of the available talent pool.

The kinds of foods parents expose their kids to will set an example for their eating habits later on in life.

As a physician-assisted suicide bill sits before committee in the California state legislature, Ira Byock, MD, urges a critical examination of the way supporters draw attention to their cause.

If there was a daily pill you could take to prevent cardiovascular disease, at no charge, and with no side effects, would you? According to a recent study, one in three people would rather live a shorter life than take a daily pill.

All day long people everywhere say the wrong thing, or they say the right thing, but in the wrong way. Hazard pay should be offered to people whose jobs require […]

Five Nobel Prize winners are throwing the weight of their scientific achievements behind a longevity pill by Elysium Health.

Frozen water at the poles of the moon represents a potential cash cow for firms that want to capitalize on the emerging private space industry.

The United States has a long history of using force to defend the property and interests of its citizens. MIT Research Fellow Michael Schrage asks why responses to cyberattacks deviate from that precedent.

Rebranding means reinvention — a wiping away of the old and replacing it with the new. Such an identity shift can be both exciting and frightening. Make sure you know what you're getting into before embarking on an identity shift.

For the first time since the Vikings sailed, the Icelandic public will soon be able to worship classical Norse gods like Odin, Thor, and Frigg at a public temple built in their honor.

"We've become a less violent species because we recognize the futility and the undesirability of violence."

A team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has successfully modeled how group decisions form from seeming chaos.

One of the eminently amusing and frustrating things in life is how people suspend common sense when thinking about anything related to their bodies or their health. Most people understand […]

As a high-wire artist, Philippe Petit doesn't have much room for mistakes. Still, he finds that mistakes are our best teachers and advises friends and students to treat them as such.

Intuition and improvisation are not opposites. They are cousins. One must take an intellectual approach to an adventurous exploration of the unknown.

Winners of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival have been announced and distribution deals have been cut (to the disappointment of on-demand platforms like Netflix and Amazon).

It's 1962 in an America that has lost World War II…

High-wire artist Philippe Petit wasn't just born with superior balance; it's something he's developed all his life and something he applies to all his life.

A marriage of discipline and play seems contradictory, but Philippe Petit thrives on being an extreme and contradictory artist.

Philippe Petit calls himself something of a Luddite. We live in a world in which we are slaves to our gadgets. His brand of art calls for a level of focus not possible when tethered to a device.