It's important for people seeking spirituality not to be led astray in the marketplace of ideas.

In Munich last week, physicists and philosophers debate what makes for a scientific theory. Surprisingly, no one agrees. This piece was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]

Not water, not ice, and definitely not aliens. Here’s how we know. “You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in […]

Neither astronomers nor native Hawaiians are to blame, but it’s up to everyone to get it right moving forward. “The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life […]

What's in California's morning dew?

When the news doesn't tell you everything.

An experiment from the 1920s explains why cliffhangers are so compelling and starting a task is often the most important part.

Social media as a business tool is in a constant state of evolution. What works today isn't going to be good enough for tomorrow.

The physics of "nonlocality" made easy.

Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.

Pretty soon, these maps may be as dated as the Bing Crosby song

The Fed slowly removes the training wheels.

A New York legal case could impact us all.

You already know the statistics: The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country. But do you know why?

Getting people to like you has never been easier. 

Elon Musk wants to shoot us back and forth from work at 750 miles per hour.

What if overeager parents took a step back from pushing their kids toward good colleges?

The values of the sharing economy are nothing new to older demographics.

Before there was Cruise, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger, there was Douglas Fairbanks.

A group of researchers from MIT has thought of what the next anonymous network might look like.