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The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

Here's how to avoid getting duped by the "dark patterns" of online businesses.

Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.

One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.

Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.

People often ask "What should I do?" when faced with an ethical problem. Aristotle urges us to ask "What kind of person should I be?"

Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.

Far from being inappropriate, many of the most controversial acceptance speeches highlighted important issues in the film industry. 

Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.

The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor's recognition of a patient's deterioration.

Immune booster or pure torture?

After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.

After the German election, will the nation continue to "muddle through" successfully enough to lead Europe?

When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]

Information economics suggests that "no news" means somebody is hiding something. But people are bad at noticing that.

The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.

We still don’t know what dark matter is, but at least we now know what it’s not. When it comes to science, we often say that it only takes a single […]

Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]

The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.

A study of the Mosuo women, known for their matriarchy, suggests that gender roles can influence our health outcomes.

Experts on the science of giving look into whether there's another possible upside to doing good: physical attractiveness.

Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]

A good apology can do great things. A bad one can cause trouble. Know the difference.

Taking time for thoughtful consideration has fallen out of fashion, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright. How can we restore good faith and good judgement to our increasingly polarized conversations?

The results suggest eating too much sugar can lead to a drug-like dependence.

Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]

Researchers measured high- and low-adversity participants' feelings of compassion.