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With 70 percent of Japanese now saying they want to phase out atomic energy, legislators have passed a bill to subsidize wind and solar power.

Hulu, OpenTable, Rovio, Travelzoo, AOL’s ad network, Rovi, Twitter, NVIDIA, Sprint, and Salesforce. They are companies Business Insider tips Google might want to acquire next.

What does the launch of CrunchFund—and the fact that Mike Arrington is at its helm—spell for the future of TechCrunch? Paul Carr rejects claims of ethical violations.

Former Navy SEAL says the Navy offered him the opportunity “to be of service to others and to lead and to test myself.”

It’s easy to see the appeal of the idea that we can put a definitive end to our suffering or grief and start a new chapter of life without sorrow, guilt, or anger. But it just isn’t true. 

An Italian woman is the latest person to have a murder sentence reduced on the grounds that abnormalities in her brain, and genes, could explain her aberrant behaviour.

“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast,” said Herman Melville. He meant that the lives we think we’d love, lacking contrast, would be miserable. 

It is 50 year after Stanley Milgram’s groundbreaking experiments on obedience to destructive orders—what have we learned from the most controversial research of our times?  

For the first time, researchers have shown viruses can be delivered through a person’s bloodstream to infect cancer cells without infecting other tissues, according to a new study.

Cohen explains that population, economics, and environment are a dynamic, interconnected system – and that no single element holds the key to solving the world’s problems.

According to Sunni Brown, people don’t share the exact same mental models. If you want someone to see what you see, you have to show it to them, which is exactly what she does.

Put your rain sticks away. Scientists have developed a way to summon water droplets out of thin air through the use of lasers which may one day help us control where it rains. 

Reflecting N.A.S.A.’s shift from lunar exploration to an asteroid visit, astronauts, engineers and scientists are testing four landing scenarios this week in Arizona’s northern desert. 

NYU’s Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway identifies the keys to a piece of content going viral: Authenticity (anything that legal approves immediately cannot go viral), Humor (a dog […]

In the wake of the Arab Spring, China’s own Jasmine Revolution was quickly put down by authorities. Is the country capable of a spontaneous uprising on the scale of the Middle East? 

Why does European news capture our world headlines while South America broils with protest and reform on the same landmass? Is it our assumed European heritage? 

Memory is not a filing cabinet nor a videotape but fragmentary, malleable, and untrustworthy. Hence the introduction of radical new eyewitness testimony rules.

Neuropsychiatry now not only better understands psychological resilience, but how to improve it. That’s good news for anyone coping with stress, not just those with disorders.

There are 198 drugs—including critically needed antibiotics, cancer drugs, diuretics, sedatives, stimulants and vaccines—in short supply in the U.S.

Signs often have an effect opposite to that intended. The problem is that to persuade people not to do something, you first have to raise the issue, increasing its salience in their minds.

Author Carmine Gallo has studied Steves Jobs’ success and wants us to ask how can we learn to unleash our inner Steve Jobs to advance our business, our careers, and the world.

What if we could predict which businesses would survive, and which would crumble? Business author Michael Raynor explains his theory for identifying disruption and changing your industry. 

A new patent application from Apple signals the company’s intent to innovate wireless charging but the idea itself, an awkward charging tower, has critics scratching their heads. 

Guy Kawasaki tells Big Think the secret to Apple’s success has been Steve Jobs’s ability to anticipate where the market will be heading, as opposed to simply reacting to where […]

Steve Jobs and Apple’s ascendancy to the throne of world technology companies was not without its pitfalls. So what did the world’s foremost tech guru learn along the way? 

A pair of Australian computer engineers is working to improve touch screen typing so the experience more closely parallels the touch typing that laptop and P.C. users are used to.