Biodiversity refers to genetic diversity within species, diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. We take a look at all three.

We are living In a time when personal information is readily available online. Although people provide résumés when applying for jobs, employers increasingly turn to social media networks like Facebook, […]

The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]

Could Alzheimer's be prevented with a simple vaccine? This startup posits that it can.

Starbucks isn't accepting bitcoin—yet.

Why is manipulating people morally wrong but influencing them is not? Here's the fundamental distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence.

This would be the end of one of the longest economic booms since the 1990 Dot Com bubble.

About 3 million tweets from Russian trolls have been published in an effort to illuminate how foreign agents have been disrupting political discourse in the U.S.

We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?

On Monday morning, YouTube removed Infowars and The Alex Jones Channel from its platform, following similar bans from Apple, Spotify and Facebook.

The Perseid meteor shower during this weekend's new moon should be fabulous.

A new poll highlights the dramatic influence of partisan thinking in the U.S. with regards to key principles of international law.

Mars will never look as big as the full Moon. But it isn’t even the biggest planet. From humanity’s perspective, the Sun and Moon always dominate Earth’s skies. The Moon and […]

Colorado and Oregon are leading the charge.

New research in PTSD might make an MDMA script reality by 2021.

How much does cognitive bias change people's perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.

Is it a super-secret place for the global el33t? Or is it just a bunch of n00bs masquerading as true h4x0rs?

Your brain organizes your memories in your sleep thanks to some incredible neuroscience.

Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.

The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.