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According to Hurricane Electric, an internet backbone and services provider based in Fremont, California, the internet will run out of bulk I.P. addresses sometime next week.

“Community building is hard work,” says Bough. It’s one thing to get people to engage with your company, and wholly another thing to get them to continue that engagement.

Failure is a terrible thing, but there’s no other way for people to learn how to do most things except to screw up enough until the point where they get […]

A cache of stone tools found on the Arabian Peninsula has reopened the critical question of when and how modern humans escaped from their ancestral homeland in eastern Africa.

China and India will always train more scientists and engineers. But at least America’s still got the best environment for ideas to grow.

The aim of the WikiLeaks revelations was not just to embarrass those in power but to lead us to mobilise ourselves to bring about a different functioning of power.

Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of cognitive scientists. That might sound intuitively obvious, until you start to think about it.

Small companies can now deploy technology that was previously reserved for large organizations so that nearly any employee can now work from anywhere.

The complexity of our 21st century problems has not just led to a postponement in peak creativity. It has also lessened the importance of the individual.

What kind of value can living well have? The analogy between art and life has often been drawn and as often ridiculed. We should live our lives, the Romantics said, as a work of art.

U.S. Supreme Court justices have ruled that corporations are “artificial persons”; the Spanish Parliament ruled that great apes are “legal persons.” So just what is a person these days?

What people are saying to each other is important, but how they are saying it may be even more telling. A new study finds that people who speak in similar styles are more compatible.

If there was a central theme to the president’s remarks, it was innovation. He called for more investment in education, research, science and clean energy.

Each year the world’s most powerful leaders meet at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to discuss how to remedy challenging and complex global issues. Yet this […]

The innovative structure of giant church congregations like Saddleback Church in southern California provides a model that businesses can emulate.

Propelling a spaceship with photons would be like trying to energize a spaceship with a flashlight.

Quantum computing already exists, but on a truly miniscule scale. We’ll probably have molecular computers before true quantum ones, says the physicist.

Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process.

Discovering the Theory of Everything would be the crowning achievement of modern science, allowing mankind to master time and space.

Theoretically, there could be people and planets made out of antimatter rather than matter, but where are they?

By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.

When you freeze human tissue, it may appear to be preserved superficially, but the ice crystals that form create massive cell damage, causing many cell walls to rupture.

Why do we underestimate others’ misery while knowing most of our own negative experiences happen in private, and we frequently put on a brave, happy face when socializing?

Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.

As much as I like crowdfunding, that doesn’t mean creative decisions should all be crowd decided. In this case, the creative decisions are based on popular vote, with little artist input.

In ‘Wandering Lonely in a Crowd’, S M Atif Imtiaz’s desire for genuine discussion about Islam in Britain is striking and compelling, writes Charles Moore.

Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia all contain political and demographic ingredients at least as perilous as those that combusted in Tunisia.

Smiles are not simply the expression of an internal feeling. Smiles in fact are only the most visible part of an intimate melding between two minds.

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