Determining what defines a happy life is more difficult today than it was for previous generations. Designer Ayse Birsel demonstrates how a shift in perspective can help bridge this newfound difficulty.

Much of what we assume is true about female sexuality stems from spurious research from the 1990s.

Now and then we've all thought we heard someone calling our name, or noticed a strange coincidence. But for people with schizophrenia, these can take on a much more nefarious quality. Dr. Vikaas Sohal walks us through what it feels like to be inside a schizophrenic brain.

The mental mechanics of how emotions and logic relate aren't widely understood. Our minds are built to mostly be "indirectly rational."

This could be you.

Reading is dangerous, but there's no harm in preparing students for the challenge.

NASA is getting really serious about its mission to land humans on Mars in the 2030s.

"There’s no more central message of psychology than the fact that most of what goes on in our heads we have no access to."

A new study shows how children who face difficult times grow up to be anxious adults. Luckily, there's something we all can do. 

Exploring and mapping the Universe? A great plan. But the math of spending billions on asteroid deflection doesn’t add up. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the […]

Role for insight.

Roll over, Picasso, and tell Kandinsky the news.

A new study says people who worry are better prepared than those who don't — but that's not the whole story.

The "Food Lab" author runs through several examples of kitchen conventional wisdom that aren't really steeped in wisdom.

In principle, they could, of course. But around bizarre star KIC 8462852? Probably not. “The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is […]

Climate change doesn't have the emotional characteristics that make it truly deep-in-your-heart scary. Leaders will have to act anyway.

NASA data from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICES) indicates that there have been "mass gains from snow accumulation" that "exceeded discharge losses" from the thinning glaciers.

The Ethiopian lawyer and women's rights activist discusses the matter-of-fact way too many patriarchal men treat rape.

Hotelling's law, a principle from game theory explains the tendency for industries to set up shop right next door to their closest competitor.

They won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, but their legacy’s just beginning. “I know all about neutrinos, and my friend here knows about everything else in astrophysics.” –John Bahcall, […]