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The controversial biologist Craig Venter believes his team of scientists will create synthetic life within a year. Venter says the Earth’s booming population depends on such advancements.

Music has amazing inspirational powers, says former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins – but only collective action can stop a war or change a government.

Despite the triumph of the individual in Western culture, society still determines what love is and how it can be gotten. Unfortunately, our modern view of love is set up to cause us pain. 

Beyond the esoteric physical findings of the Large Hadron Collider, discovering evidence of the Higgs boson represents a milestone for human reason and is, more generally, a celebration of life. 

Will the natural gas boom revitalize the U.S. economy and provide us energy for 100 years? Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, weighs in.

The summer is in full swing. School leaders around the country had big plans for this summer. Many walked into June saying, “This is the summer that I will do […]

Searching for a job is almost inevitably stressful, but it can also be mentally draining: worrying about how you’ll pay the rent or whether the wording on your resume will […]

University of Chicago researchers have found that words in our native tongue carry more emotional impact than words in a second language, influencing how we make important decisions. 

The psychological phenomenon known as fundamental attribution error describes our tendency to locate the cause of mistakes outside ourselves yet blame others personally. 

I can’t shake this feeling that access to online dating is actually making it more difficult for men and women to find love. I know that sounds counterintuitive, especially from […]

A recent study indicates social networks such as Facebook and Twitter can effect health behaviors in humans.

Is religion the only thing that can inspire feelings of a transcendent hope? Perhaps that is the wrong question. Do we even need hope to live? British philosopher Julian Baggini responds. 

When NASA’s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, touches down, scientists will study its landing technology to understand how suitable it would be for sending a manned mission to Mars.

The U.S. economy added only 80,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remains stuck at 8.2 percent. Worse yet, many economic forecasters see “tepid” growth for the rest of […]

Ed Conard, a retired partner of Bain Capital says that one of the company’s key insights was that “companies are in fierce competition with each other to deliver as much […]

I recently helped a friend prioritize their measurement framework for a series of growth experiments. Here’s a lightly edited version of my advice. When looking to focus on user growth, […]

Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku says that even with strong evidence of the Higgs Boson, it is not time to pop the champagne. Next up: use the Large Hardon Collider to find dark energy. 

Gold is in fashion these days thanks to uncertainty in the global economy and worries that the United States and other countries will devalue their debts through inflation. Gold is valuable, and […]

Economist Daniel Altman on gold’s economic stability and why we shouldn’t return to the gold standard.

Baratunde Thurston’s How To Be Black is neither peevish gripe nor venomous attack. Like the best satire, it convinces with wit and compassion, and offers readers a vision of a […]

The Godfather of DIY Punk says that the internet has opened up new worlds of instantaneous communication, and new opportunities for media and governments to obscure and evade the truth.

While discovering the Higgs particle would bode well for the validity of the Standard Model, there are still lingering questions which the Large Hadron Collider has yet to find answers to.

That we are not instinctively built that way must be recognized if we’re going to get beyond the risks of not being built that way.

Jeff Jarvis, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Diamandis, Jonathan Harris, and Jaron Lanier on a better technological future informed by the best of human nature.

Whether women, or men, or both invented it – empathy, even in adversarial relationships, is invariably the wisest approach.

It seems Afghanistan may go the way of Angola and the Congo, which have both suffered greatly as a result of material wealth coupled with unaccountable political institutions. 

By recording electronic signals produced by the brain in laboratory settings, scientists are able to identify what patients are thinking about before they are consciously aware of the thought. 

Researchers at Ohio State University say that reading a good book written in the first person can change the reader in different ways.