Whether or not there are tropical islands in 50 years might depend on whether or not we can eat fewer hamburgers.

Door-to-door brush salesman Norman Hall had a unique way of explaining what his day is like to Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Hall […]

The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.

Eboo Patel explains how America's political philosophy broke the democratic mold.

It’s either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. The Universe is expanding, and every scientist in the field agrees with that. The observations overwhelmingly support that straightforward conclusion, and […]

The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.

"Didn't you see me Googling 'baby not moving?'" Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.

Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.

One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.

Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear

What can America learn from this?

From the cosmic blast into another being's mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.

Despite itself, this collection of awful cartography may just make a few useful observations.

It's not what you have, it's what you do with it.

VR's coolest feature? Boosting compassion and empathy.

The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]

The second reason Sarah Robb O’Hagan — CEO of Flywheel Sports and former president of Gatorade — lost a job in her 20s is that “I was actually not courageous […]

That's a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.

Technology's rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.

The bold technique involves surgically implanting a so-called microneedle patch directly onto the heart.