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VanDerWaals' line of app-enabled, color-changing bags could represent the future of tech-driven fashion items.

If String Theory has nothing to do with reality, what are our options? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all […]

Gay rights supporter Patrick Stewart sees some nuance in the debate. Do you agree?

Researchers discuss their research into the Disneyland measles outbreak and why you should vaccinate for the good of the herd.

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Both biology and economics are in the “productivity selection” business. But self-interest in evolution differs greatly from self-interest in economics. Comparing them shows that excessive self-maximization has become a systemic risk.

An exposé in this week’s issue of The New Yorker on the surprising depth of jihadist poetry should be required reading for everyone on the swelling list of candidates for president […]

George Zimmer, famous for his familiar beard and iconic commercial catchphrase, is attempting to disrupt the tailoring industry with a new venture.

Genetically modified plants, in and of themselves, are not harmful, says Bill. In fact, they feed billions of people thanks to increased crop yields.

Would there be only blackness past the event horizon? Or something more? They say ‘A flat ocean is an ocean of trouble. And an ocean of waves… can also be […]

Caleb M. Brown discovered a new dinosaur species... and used it to help him pop the question.

Researchers discovered a causal link between poor sleep and the build-up of the beta-amyloid protein, which is believed to cause Alzheimer's.

Given the age in which we live, it’s easy to equate intelligence with access to information. And, of course, information is a significant part of knowledge and intelligence. But it […]

A spiritual practice helps us learn about ourselves. It's also a great way to make money.

Sarah Larson analyzes how texting our amusement has changed — how does a "heehee" sound versus a "hehe"?

The story of the boy who survived underwater for 42 minutes is astounding. But how was he able to live? Science gives us a few possible answers.

It's undeniable that the climate of the Alaskan interior and western Yukon Territories is undergoing a startling change. With warmer temperatures comes heightened risk of costly natural disasters.

Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra, are the first with irregular rotations, and hence unpredictable sunsets and sunrises. “Movin’ right along.You take it, you know best.Hey, I’ve never seen the Sun […]

David Walsh has found that sports help people cope with big life changes — it acts as an outlet and allows us to have a sense of community. So, how would sports help in the transition to retirement?

John Lennon liked to joke that Yoko Ono was “the world’s most famous unknown artist.” Before she infamously “broke up the Beatles” (but not really), Ono built an internationally recognized career as an artist in the developing fields of Conceptual art, experimental film, and performance art. Unfairly famous then and now for all the wrong reasons, Ono’s long fought in her own humorously sly way for recognition, beginning with her self-staged 1971 “show” Museum of Modern (F)art, a performance piece in which she dreamed of a one-woman exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Now, more than 40 years later, the MoMA makes that dream come true with the exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971. Better late than never, this exhibition of the pre-Lennon and early-Lennon Ono establishes her not just as the world’s most famous unknown artist, but the most unfairly unknown one, too.