Neuroscientist David Linden says the human need for love is actually the indirect result of our inefficient neurons.

If you think you can just take a test and demonstrate your scientific literacy, think again. “Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. […]

In 1972, eight mice were placed in a utopia. Full of food, water, bedding, and space for 3000 mice. Within three years there were no survivors.   

Joe Camel didn't want you to know about the secret ingredient to his success. 

Politics is a noble, brave world, says Bernard-Henri Lévy – but that's not what we have here. rn

Did decentralizing top-down media control bring us any closer to the truth-topia we were hoping for?

It takes four dollars of debt to create a single dollar of GDP growth in China. For context, at the peak of the GFC in 2008 it was taking three dollars of debt to create a dollar of GDP growth in the U.S. China has received the kiss of debt, says Ruchir Sharma.

The “Red Queen Hypothesis” has been strengthened considerably by this study.    

A superbug that resisted all available bacteria kills a woman in Reno, Nevada.

Why it’s not “the next Hubble,” but “the first James Webb.” “…because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is […]

A large new study finds a relationship between consumption of hot red peppers and mortality.

Important new research on the right amount of screen time for teens. A Large-Scale Test of the Goldilocks Hypothesis: Quantifying the Relations Between Digital-Screen Use and the Mental Well-Being of Adolescents, tested the theory that instead of a linear relationship between teen screen-time and harm, there was an amount that was just right. 

Director Diane Paulus delivers a crash course in team dynamics, how to nurture creativity, and the importance of obsession in a good leader.

Oasis had it right: stop crying your heart out. Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that empathy may be working against our best interests, and that compassion may be a better strategy.

How will we deal with the impending overpopulation crisis – and how much of a crisis is it anyway?

A global risk report by the World Economic Forum lists populism and social division among the top five trends that will determine global markets in 2017 and beyond.

Louise Tarrant argues less work is not weakness, but a sign of prosperity and a necessity to the coming automation.

More than 630 companies are calling out President-elect Donald Trump in an open letter. It asks him to keep the promises the United States made during the Paris Agreement and move us closer to a low-carbon economy.

Only a few galaxies exhibit this green glow in the nearby Universe. At early times, it’s practically all of the brightest ones. “The discovery that young galaxies are so unexpectedly […]

New research reveals that people find those who use profanity more honest and trustworthy.