Elon Musk took issue with recent ideas for space exploration from Jeff Bezos.

Convergence 2.0: Engineers are using the "natural genius" of biological systems to produce extraordinary machines—self-assembling batteries, cancer-detecting nanoparticles, super-efficient water filters made from proteins found in blood cells. Neuroscientist and MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and host Jason Gots discuss what all this could mean for our future.

Depression is quicksand, says comedian Pete Holmes. Try this method to help you cope and live with depression.

The new system could soon greatly improve foreign-language interactions.

It may be growing in popularity, but is there anything substantive to this new wellness trend?

Despite the moniker, bedbugs evolved long before mattresses and even survived the K-T extinction.

Normally, life expectancy increases every year. For Americans, the opioid epidemic is changing that.

Researchers advance machine learning to create videos of people from single stills and paintings.

Neither one reflects the other; they’re both blue for entirely different reasons. If you’ve ever been curious about the world you live in, you’ve probably wondered why the sky is […]

Neuroscience is working to conquer some of the human body's cruelest conditions: Paralysis, brain disease, and schizophrenia.

From deejays to Debussy, it's all brain food.

A recent study gives new meaning to the saying "fake it 'til you make it."

If a fetus is a person, would it be a citizen too?

Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?

No one should be drinking more than 8oz. a day. Here's why.

 The way in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes solves even the most challenging of mysteries is more than just dazzling fun. In fact, says Maria Konnikova, author […]

There are real problems that our society faces, and only through expert-level knowledge can we solve them. All across the country, you can see how the seeds of it develop from […]

As religious diversity increases in the United States, we must learn to channel religious identity into interfaith cooperation.

A new Gallup polls shows the rising support for socialism in the United States.

Is this proof of a dramatic shift?