A wealthy team doesn't automatically make for a successful team.

Buddhism and Western science converge on a number of ideas.

Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.

For Damien Echols, tattoos are part of his existential armor.

With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]

Even some teachers suffer from anxiety about math.

The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the "Red Terror," still confounds Russia.

Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.

Research by neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.

When these companies compete, in the current system, the people lose.

Our attention is more than just a resource. It is an experience.

Everyone comes from somewhere.

Is it "perverseness," the "death drive," or something else?

They marveled at it.

It's up to us humans to re-humanize our world. An economy that prioritizes growth and profits over humanity has led to digital platforms that "strip the topsoil" of human behavior, whole industries, and the planet, giving less and less back. And only we can save us.

If everything in nature is made of quantum fields at its core, how do we wind up with particles at all? What is our Universe made out of? At a fundamental […]

Upload your mind? Here's a reality check on the Singularity.

A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.

It's one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.

It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.