Simply getting into grad school isn’t enough. The answers to these three questions can make all the difference. It’s time. You’ve done all your research into schools, completed your undergraduate […]

The team seems to have found a way to extend animal lifespan without genetic modification.

We should care about constitutional rights for all, says lawyer and religious freedom scholar Asma T. Uddin. If they are denied for some, history demonstrates how they may be at risk for us all.

Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.

Can a shift in the way we treat death and dying improve our lives while we're still here?

When we look at some of the companies with notoriously bad customer service, like Comcast, Bank of America, or United Airlines, it could be tempting to say that good customer […]

In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]

The ways in which humans have divinized technology.

The results have startling implications about the evolution of psychopathy in humans.

According to recent papers by Zucman, and his colleague Emmanuel Saez, one should be implemented.

Could this be the beginning of the end of insulin injections?

If you think that the Moon is only good for reflecting sunlight, you’ve got another think coming. To human eyes, the Moon is the second brightest visible object, trailing only the […]

Take the circumstances in your life seriously, but not literally. Here's why.

Orgasms don't always mean a sexual encounter is positive, find psychologists.

When adults are challenged to behave like adults, by a child, they can go in one of two directions.

When it comes to scientific theory, (or your personal life) be sure to question everything.

Though what constitutes "getting old" for women in America has been a moving target throughout US history, it has rarely been a picnic. But our history's also full of women who have raised hell and pushed back in a hundred different ways against the cultural and literal corsets America keeps trying to stuff them into.

It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]

"On the spectrum from worry to action, parents can choose to act," a new report states.

A harrowing new report by the CDC should serve as a wake-up call.