Sigh. Apparently there's still some confusion about whether the planet is getting warmer or cooler. Now only 57 percent of Americans believe there...
According to new research from psychologists at Florida State University, praying works. Not at getting God to do stuff (that's hard to test) but...
Your face says a lot about you. It says some obvious stuff (your age, gender, and race, for example, are usually apparent by the way your face...
St. John's Wart? Sounds like something Gandalf would prescribe. Information is Beautiful has a nice infographic showing which "health...
It might sound far-fetched, but so does smashing protons together at light speed to recreate the conditions of the start of the universe....
What do kids need to do well in school? Lots of well-meaning teachers and parents think praise is important. And they're right. Sort of.
Ashley...
How bad moods make us careful.
Like so many writing teachers, I've been told I sometimes drive my students to depression or binge-drinking....
Can we make sure the superintelligent machines are friendly?
Part four in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko...
How intelligent machines could make being human unimaginably better.
Part six in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and...
I don't exactly know what to say about xkcd's illustration of our planets' and moons' gravity wells, other than that it's completely awesome-and a...
The Biosphere 2, a closed environment built in the late 1980s in Arizona to study how humans and ecosystems worked together, was beset by all...
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a plastic that can be composed at home and could be used for all sorts of food packaging....
How politicians use the psychological effects of fear to twist our perspective, and how we can fight back.
Politico published an article last...
A new study by two psychologists, Malte Klar and Tim Kasser, has shown that political activism can do more than save the whales. It can save your...
Astronomies of Scale
The scientists behind the Allen Telescope Array (Microsoft co-founder and alien enthusiast Paul Allen is backing the...
Brain Mapping
Jeff Hawkins built his career (and his fortune) as the inventor of the Palm Pilot and the Treo. In 2005, he co-founded the...
Algae-based fuel is a massive leap from corn ethanol, and could already be working within our existing transportation infrastructure-if only its...
That's an ear implant. It's getting seeded with cartilage cells at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which is "part a...
Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom.
Part three in a GOOD miniseries on the...
While you were eating turkey (or Tofurkey) last week, scientists in the Netherlands were working away on a new innovation for the common table:...
Andrew Price
The British Psychological Society has a roundup of romantic advice culled from psychology papers:
