Austin and Seattle, echelons of early adopters and “Keep My City Weird” bumper stickers, will be the first cities in the US to receive Bitcoin ATMs. After a successful pilot […]

            Anyone who has followed the fuss over fracking has heard opponents of the process claim that it causes earthquakes. According to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey, […]

The handle of the Big Dipper leads you to Arcturus, the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere. But there’s a deep-sky wonder hiding in plain sight, if you know where […]

The Universe has always been ready for us. Are we finally ready for it? “Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson In only a […]

Update March 25th 2014:The Psychiatric Timeshave republished the article along with responses from those involved. On 6th December 2013 the journal Psychiatric Times published an article online by Richard Noll, a […]

It’s one of nature’s most amazing sights, but how does it work? “I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.” –Mike […]

BEIJING – There are probably as many definitions of ‘genius’ as there are vain, successful people. Yet, not everyone who is vain and successful is a genius; in fact, many […]

Tom Stewart on the value of a much abused term.

The scale is not your enemy — it can be your friend if you know how to use the results as feedback data, not something to get emotional about. 

Autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics are not the crowning achievements of our age. These are the warm up acts.   

‘Religion’ is a Western word and concept. There’s only one “Religion” -this category. Naturally the West will generously promote “religious freedom” as long as terms and conditions apply: We are […]

Our smartphones and other gadgets are just "the warm up acts" of the second machine age.

The greatest cosmic battle — between gravity and expansion — has been going on for billions of years. Who will win? “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”-Wernher von Braun When you […]

Flowers, the reproductive organs of angiosperms, were a novel structure that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. 

Love might be blind, but she is rarely deaf: Language and love have always been intimately entangled. Indeed Darwin believed love was one of the main reasons we have language […]

One of the most famous branches in plant’s evolution is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms, which puzzled Darwin.

Edward Frenkel, who is one of the leading mathematical physicists in the world, makes math look sexy. 

Math is not the opposite of art and poetry. In fact, every formula is a formula of love.

More than a decade of slow starvation has begun to weaken the inner organs of the media, not just its surface elements like production values and paper quality.

“I leave you with four words: I’m glad Reagan dead,” Mike “Killer Mike” Render rapped in his song “Reagan” off the 2012 album R.A.P. Music. His harsh, inflammatory statements drew […]