Approximately 70 percent of Americans use prescription drugs which raises serious concern for the potential levels of pill addiction in this country. Leading health organizations, including the Center for Disease […]

Clean energy. GREEN energy. Energy that can solve global warming. Environmentalists are all for it. And as a direct result, no matter what the benefits, conservatives are absolutely against it. […]

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt

If the industrialized and industrializing nations of the world do not commit to reducing fossil fuel emissions in the coming years, Earth will cross a climate change threshold by 2036.

Do you remember where you were when you first heard of this thing called the Internet? Do you remember how this technology—email, search engines—gradually took over your life, or perhaps […]

Race may be genetic in that scientists, who have sequenced the genomes of thousands of people from around the world, can distinguish between races based on an individual's genetic code.

Gerd Gigerenzer on seeing and understanding the risks around you.

Michio Kaku on what makes a supergenius.

Fareed Zakaria explains what it takes to excel in today's knowledge economy and why accreditation matters more than ever.

Pioneer of facial recognition technology, Dr. Joseph J. Atick is now working against some of the technology's strongest advocates to develop policies that will preserve individuals' rights to remain anonymous.

No single factor can explain the aging process. Rather, lifespan is determined by complex interactions among diet, mitochondrial DNA, and nuclear DNA.

In the heart of our nearest big galaxy cluster, a massive spiral fights for its life. “Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been […]

The popular phrase meant to guide your decisions through the weeds of life to the garden of self-fulfillment is more harmful than helpful.

We know several key things lie ahead for our planet: an aging population, climate change, a changing energy economy, immigration, and new personal technologies.

Into the Bestiary Business Should Chinese creatures be incorporated into Anglo-Saxon parlance, and if so, where to draw the line in number and color? This goes beyond linguistic pedantry and […]

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." – Norman Cousins

Private space companies are gearing up for their most active year yet as they work to create a space tourism market and exploit resources beyond the planet.

There has been a lot of attention in recent years on flow—complete absorption in a task that it almost seems effortless. The modern pursuit of flow—how to achieve it, how […]

Andy Warhol's exhibition, titled 13 Most Wanted Men, didn't raise eyebrows when it was reviewed for submission to the 1964 New York World's Fair…

Our unbridled enthusiasm for data-driven technology is dangerous, says cultural critic Evgeny Morozov, because it encourages us to adopt a particularly skewed understanding of the concept of freedom.