All cities have clogged traffic arteries, post-industrial pockets of hipness, and districts that hate each other's guts for no other reason than that they're across the river from each other, or on opposite sides of the tracks.

In prohibiting juvenile solitary confinement in federal prisons, President Barack Obama follows the advice of prison experts like Marie Gottschalk. Here she explains the "degrading and dehumanizing" harm caused by extreme isolation.

Could Michael Bloomberg actually win? Or should he spend his billions on fixing our broken electoral system instead?

Google.org is trying to help refugees regain the lives they lost.

Photographer Eric Pickersgill has imagined a strange new world. One not unlike our own.

Tinder now offers free testing for sexually transmitted infections to users.

Is inertia of prior ideas the only thing keeping us from the next major revolution in science? This post was written by Brian Koberlein. Brian is an astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer […]

Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing

Designed by Uruguayan-born, New York-based architect Rafael Viñoly, the new Laguna Garzón Bridge aims to reduce the speed of crossing cars and encourage drivers to enjoy the view.

Climate change has brought a disease out of obscurity and into new regions of America, causing a pandemic.

The mission to explore Europa, the moon of Jupiter with twice as much seawater as Earth, has entered "phase B," meaning the project now has funding from Congress.

Super Bowl season illustrates a deep part of who we are, not just as sports fans.

Life may have ended before it had a chance to begin. They're calling this solution to the Fermi Paradox the Gaian Bottleneck. It's not that life has never emerged in the universe — it just never had the chance to grow or evolve.

Locate any of the 57 trillion three-by-three-metre squares on Earth with just three words.

Confronting the logic of the "I have nothing to hide" argument.

How you feel about your job is obviously an important indication. The other is whether your company encourages you to learn skills that will keep you — and the company — relevant.

How the darkest places on the sky unexpectedly house the closest new stars. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will […]

Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner's sustained dominance.

And here’s the reason why, despite all you may have heard. “Thou shalt not embarrass thyself and thy colleagues by claiming false planets.” –Bill Cochran Late last year, one of the […]

Two Rice University students have created "TrumpScript," a programming language Donald Trump would approve of.