Check out these mysterious optical illusions that affect our visual perception.

The motivations behind this complex feeling.

It's not about what guns people have. It's who has them.

Machine learning, which actively protects you from all sorts of dangers, including fires, explosions, collapses, crashes, workplace accidents, restaurant E. coli, and crime.

We tend to promote foreigners by broadcasting their economic and scholarly value, instead of their intrinsic humanity.

These tests report on more than just your risk for cilantro aversion and your ice-cream flavor preference.

Research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method called 'illeism'.

Different methods of measuring the expansion rate give different values. This one linchpin is key. In science, different methods of measuring the same properties should yield the same results. The expanding […]

The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.

Recognizing the consequences of your actions requires consideration of the long game.

Be the Most Productive Version of Yourself: A Millennial Insider’s Guide to Getting More Done, with Kathryn Minshew, CEO and Co-founder, The Muse Figure out your most productive time and […]

We like to think of creativity as an inherently good thing. History and science say otherwise.

A large new study pinpoints a technique to achieving better grades and success in life.

Gun safety laws have a historical precedent in the 1939 court case U.S. v Miller.

Compared to traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes are extremely understudied. There is, however, some evidence on their negative effects on your health.

Maya Angelou will be commemorated in a new permanent art installation in San Francisco. Poet and novelist, Angelou had a storied relationship with the city. She attended the George Washington […]

Ever taken pleasure in someone else's misfortune?

It turns out these little white lies serve a purpose.

The first wave of the retailer's anticipated automated delivery fleet hits the sidewalks.

How do you write away the personal hole in your heart when that hole was left by a man half the world idolizes? Steve Jobs' daughter, the writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs, on the process and effects of writing her beautiful memoir SMALL FRY.