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Of 271 people exonerated by D.N.A. evidence since 1992, around a quarter of people had confessed or pleaded guilty to the offences of which they were accused.

Creativity has recently decreased among American schoolchildren, says a recent study. Since 1990, children have become less able to produce unique and unusual ideas.

People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that mimic the patterns of drug addiction, new research shows.

With all of modern computing’s storage capacity, we are forgetting how to remember. We instead remember how to access information but is something uniquely human being lost? 

Women employ a more participative leadership style, are more likely to share information and power, and have strong relational skills that make them seem empathic to their staffs.

Far from being a ponzi scheme, China is the real thing, says financier Steven Rattner. In fact, if he were starting his career today, Rattner says he would seek his […]

Social networks are just a tool, says Londoner Peter Bright. Like any tool, some will use them for ill ends, but many others will put them to positive uses. Take London, for example.

A California company has found a way for solar plants to work at night, making solar energy more efficient and more able to compete with traditional forms of making electricity. 

Asher Edelman advises the Fed to instruct both the President, his advisors, and Congress that monetary easing alone or monetary policy alone, can never revive the economy.

Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West […]

It is the thirtieth anniversary of the Toxteth riots in what was better known then as the Liverpool 8 district. I remember the shocking scenes, as a corner of that […]

Are you cultivating the critical relationships at work?

French philosopher Raphaël Enthoven meditates on the nature of reverie. Rather than firing neurons, daydreaming is ‘a sweet drug that plays with fire’ and ‘the world before concepts’.

Amidst all of the market babble and financial gobbledegook that poured from both ‘analysts’ and ‘practitioners’ following last week’s global market meltdown, came a shaft of light. It took the […]

Research has shown that a happy workplace is a more productive workplace. Shawn Achor details how this discovery should impact the way we think about leadership and management.

Psychologists are trying to level the culinary playing field. They want to improve the experience of eating healthy foods by determining how growers can breed them to taste better.

This week, a group of Japanese researchers from Kyoto University said they had figured out a way to turn embryonic stem cells into the more specific type of stem cell that makes sperm.

Dr. Alberto Costa, who devoted his career to researching Down syndrome when his daughter was born with the disorder, believes that treatment is as important as prevention.

Such a protracted legal process is required to make health claims about certain foods that the only the pharmaceutical industry is trusted as the arbiter of what is healthy. 

There’s a Brain Drain Race going on between the world’s economic leaders – a scramble to snap up the “best and the brightest” immigrants from poor and emerging nations. As […]

Nearly killed escaping his native Syria for Lebanon, Rami Nakhle continues to unite activists who oppose the ruling Assad regime despite harassment and threats against this life.

“When you are part of a failed venture, as long as you didn’t lie, cheat, or steal,” says Sahlman, “then you’re considered experienced. And in fact, to the extent people […]

Information technology consultant Scott Bils says cloud computing and the ubiquity of mobile devices are reorienting the role of workplace technology officers toward business. 

The Indian government promised the world a $35 laptop a year ago. In a few weeks it will deliver, said Kapil Sibal, minister for human resource development.

New technology for extracting oil from tarry sands could more than double the amount of oil that can be extracted from these abundant deposits while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

A recent study finds that the technology can help researchers locate people’s social security numbers, just from the information on their Facebook profiles and their photo.

The Syrian government has killed nearly 142 people, including at least 100 when the army stormed the protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan, political activists say.

With the deal reached Sunday night, the U.S. has a good chance of escaping the debt crisis with its credit intact, but the government may not be so lucky with its reputation.

Despite what we believe about our powers of introspection, the reality is that we know awfully little about what our conscious experience amounts to.

For the first time, researchers have used brain signals to predict when a driver is about to slam on the brakes. The technology can shorten braking distance by four meters, preventing accidents.