The Present

Money can’t buy happiness, but try being hopeful and broke at the same time.

The 20th century was marked by waves of pro-democracy revolutions. Now, the future of democracy looks uncertain.

The U.S., China, and Russia are in a “vaccine race” that treats a global challenge like a winner-take-all game.

Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.

Finances can be a stressor, regardless of tax bracket. Here are tips for making better money decisions.

The electric car manufacturer says updates to its battery design and manufacturing process will help lower production costs.

Well preserved coffins hint towards more discoveries in a famed necropolis.

Archaeology clues us in on the dangers of letting viruses hang around.

People remember when governments lie to them and it lowers their satisfaction in government officials.

Join Radiolab’s Latif Nasser at 1pm ET today as he chats with Malcolm Gladwell live on Big Think.

If you want flexibility, transparency, and decent health policies, it seems like working in tech pays off.

The Labour Economics study suggests two potential reasons for the increase: corruption and increased capacity.

Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.

In his new book, “American Rule,” Jared Yates Sexton hopes to overturn a centuries-long myth.

What responsibility should government authorities and Big Tech take in policing the spread of sedition-oriented content?

The survey, performed by Morning Consult and commissioned by Amazon, found a majority of those job seekers want to move into new industries to stay relevant.

A mile-high tower would not just be a new structure, but a new technology.

The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.

New prototype Petri dishes let ordinary scientists in on the advanced technology.

Acorn woodpecker battles over prized territory are serious business.

Less than 1% of all venture capital funding in the US is given to Black entrepreneurs. Now is the time for that to change.

Estonia has combined a belief in learning with equal-access technology to create one of world’s best education systems.

“Our data should be ours no matter what platforms and apps we use,” Yang said.

From reassessing the way schools are funded to changing the curriculum, there are ways to fix the inequities in education.

Living simply now strikes many people as simply boring.

The American economy may be locked into an unhealthy cycle that only benefits a select few. Is it too late to fix it?

New research reveals the extent to which groupthink bias is increasingly being built into the content we consume.

It can mean citizens drinking contaminated groundwater or being schooled in decaying buildings with asbestos problems.

DribbleUp is the perfect solution to recess at home.

Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.