Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, offers an important 5-point plan for President Trump on space exploration and NASA's budget.  

This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri's conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.  

New York has the same GDP as Canada, Los Angeles makes as much money in a year as Australia

Your theory predicts something novel? How nice. But no one will pay you any mind unless you test it. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards […]

Men have become much more aggressive with women in their negotiation style since Donald Trump became president, according to a new Game Theory based economics study. More aggressive tactics by men are leading to reduced mutual benefits and a destruction of value in negotiations.

Percy Shelley's 1811 essay, "The Necessity of Atheism," still speaks volumes today.

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.

The European Geosciences Union predicts that over 70% of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100. One man has engineered a solution so that life in these regions can go on.

Have you heard that life is unlikely around low-mass, red dwarf stars? It might be time to rethink that flawed conclusion. “Laws of nature mixed with evolutionary/historical contingencies allow for […]

Don't work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.

Why are we so hung up on Pluto's planetary status? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson urges us to get over it already!

The study might also help us to identify the prodigy gene, should it exist.    

Stand up comedians are twice as likely to die younger than dramatic actors. And according to at least one published medical study, the funnier you are the earlier you could die young. 

New research shows that more Americans are giving up on weight loss. How can we change this trend?

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains why nothing is really something.

There’s a lot to learn about other worlds, but you can’t learn it all without looking up. “One should not need a teleportation device to decide whether a newly discovered object […]

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has views on empathy, emotion, and rationality that make him a black sheep among his peers.

“Human ambitions have no limits,” the Sheikh announcing the project said.   

Is it luck? Is it a numbers game? Science suggests that it may be a delicate mix of both. 

An amateur scientist reveals that cosmic debris from space is all over the place.