Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.

            When you think of social media, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Facebook. That’s no surprise considering that as of April […]

Researchers say that the snow line of the world's tallest mountain has retreated by nearly 600 feet in the last 50 years. It's the latest data available in the controversial discussion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers.

Last week two articles were published stating that meditation is not necessarily a component of living a spiritual life, as well as that we generally don’t recognize what real meditation […]

Researchers at Arizona State University want help with gathering and editing information about each of the estimated 30,000 power plants operating worldwide.

There may be fewer of them in the future: Half of the people surveyed for a new report said they would prefer to buy their next car from a machine rather than from a human.

According to the biologist's view, if we are indeed inherently polygamists, we should have never been as happy as we are today because modernity would seem to enable our real nature to express itself. 

Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips. 

There is an imbalance between economic importance in global GDP and economic voice in the setting of the global economic agenda. What’s required for the future is a rebalancing of this mismatch. 

Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.

The “intent to treat” format does not alleviate selection problems within the “intent to treat” group.  

 The most revealing and important line in Angelina Jolie’s OpEd in the New York Times today  is not the one in which she reveals she has had her breasts removed […]

The reason that eating and everything that involves is taboo is that it’s something we have in common with animals. 

I think a lot of people stereotype generous and helpful people as pushovers, as weak, as not tough and driven enough to be successful.  And I think that is a myth that we really need to break down.  

Under Helene’s leadership, CARE has strengthened its focus on the intersection of poverty and the environment.

In a world created by hackers those who can't hack are the underclass.

If you thought that random samples of your DNA collected in public spaces could never be used as part of a futuristic genetic surveillance program, think again. In what has […]

The gun debate in America may have “jumped the shark” with yesterday’s Mother’s Day Parade shooting in New Orleans that left 19 wounded, including two children. When something as universally […]

While mainland Chinese companies already export inexpensive goods like seat belts, wipers and radios, their native engineers are young and lack the knowledge necessary to develop cars year in and year out.

Dull Flag, Tongue of Gangsta and dozens more strange toponyms dot these windswept Scottish archipelagoes