Neuroscience research shows that variety is important for healthy individuals and healthy societies. 

If you've ever wondered what happens to a tattoo, the answer's more surprising than you think.

A variation of the "the trolley problem" and how a psychopath weighs his or her options differently than others.

The Advent of Wearable Tech is here and it Pairs Perfectly with Medical Detection.   

What do Rachel Dolezal and the ethnic foodie scene have in common?

Is it about to get easier to trust our health to an app?

By devising the first truly brilliant physics experiment, Galileo gave us the equations of motion we still use today. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point […]

John Eliot Gardiner looks at what we know if Johan Sebastian Bach's argumentative life.

Just about everyone engages in office gossip, or at least entertains those who do. Yet we all recognize gossiping as unprofessional behavior. Something's deeply wrong at work, says Robert Kegan.

Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.

Without a boost, they’ll all come crashing down. “I’m here for several reason, Mr. Pepin, first of all for aid. When something tragic happens in our skies, we do our utmost […]

Kevin Dutton presents the warning signs that someone close to you is a psychopath.

We often now picture our minds in unsound ways. They’re built to resonate to poetry. We’ve all but lost the memory of poetry’s historic role in molding minds (that’s the unsung pretext of Plato’s poetry ban). Poetry is a key cognitive technology , so powerful it was the Internet of its time. 

Did Haiti just get the help it needs from an innovative startup?

When you are experiencing writer's block, more than your writing is blocked, says memoirist and novelist Augusten Burroughs. Here is his creative solution to get you writing again.

Celebrating Hispanic culture, the map-shaped fountain is one of Zaragoza's more curious attractions

Spiritual capitalism started in the sixties. Today it has been mastered. 

How did human blood types evolve to what they are today? Some scientists believe it was our first defense against disease.

Understanding the shape of the Earth is all about its mass, says Bill Nye the Science Guy. If it weren't for all the water, rocks, metals, and lava on our planet, it might have an irregular form.

Where do our best ideas come from? As it turns out, science says there are a number of ways to help prime the brain for divergent thinking. If you've hit a creative roadblock, here are a few ways to get the ideas flowing.