Americans live the the broadest, emptiest slice of the planet. 

We’ve never seen an event horizon, nor directly imaged a black hole. Thanks to a worldwide effort, victory may at last be in sight. “Never look down to test the ground […]

The times in history when science was deadly and dangerous.

When the president gets his primary information from talking heads on cable TV rather than intelligence briefings, we have a problem.

This could revolutionize organ transplants, grafts, prostheses, and implants.

How many calories are in human anyway?   

Research shows the groups have different tastes when buying science books. For the most part.

There is an old adage, “take stock of the company you keep”. As it turns out, we are more tolerant of people who have similar negative personality traits as us.

If you think that spin-1/2 and spin-1 aren’t that different, the actual science may shock you. “The layman always means, when he says “reality” that he is speaking of something self-evidently […]

Psychologists sort human personalities into five traits, each of which you can score high or low on.

Will we ever have a Theory of Everything? Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss isn't sure that's the right question to be asking.

Researchers are bringing together imaging and AI to understand the variations, causes, and potential treatments of depression.

There is a new era of PTSD science just around the corner.  

There's one whopper out there that people rarely acknowledge, but self-confessed "cynical libertarian" Dave Barry isn't shying away.

It’s illegal, yet usually a subconscious act. So how can we scrub bias from the hiring process? 

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Social Psychologist Adam Alter on a planet-wide epidemic it's not (yet) too late to bring under control. 

But that’s okay; the most likely world for life may not be like Earth, after all. “You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.” […]

KGB-era "active measures" are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.

Dyslexia makes letters float, rotate, and flip on a page. It turns M's into W's, q's into p's, and so on. Changing the font-face might be able to help keep the letters in place on the page.

From olde English dogs, to immoral women, to weak men, to irritating women, to its prideful reclaiming, to ownership over a woman (there's a theme here), the word "b*tch" has a long and fascinating history, and it's all stored in the archives of the Merriam-Webster lexicography department.