Silicon Valley engineers and financiers make up the lion’s share of the movement.   

Will actors have to compete against dead celebrities for roles? Given the advance in CGI (Computer Generated Images) and VFX (Special Effects), Hollywood’s desire for bankable stars, and estates looking for...

Louis Menand discusses the downright weird way we care about fictional characters we know perfectly well aren't really real.

CERN researchers make a major step in understanding antimatter by trapping antihydrogen atoms and controlling them with lasers.

This could open allow for the exploration of nearby exoplanets, solar systems, and other parts of the galaxy.   

Journalist Eric Schlosser reports that the president isn’t actually the only American who can launch a nuclear attack all by himself or with one other person.

Storied skills and a musical analogy might help us update the logic of "virtue ethics." In life, as in jazz, freedom without skills results in a lot foolish noise. 

Physicist Erik Verlinde's theory successfully predicts the distribution of gravity around 33,000+ galaxies without relying on unobserved "dark matter".

Donald Trump campaigned on the imperative to bring back jobs for Americans. He should turn to Elon Musk to succeed on his aims.

Taking pain relief at the first feelings of a headache may mask an underlying condition. Use long-term treatments designed for migraines, says the director of Yale's Headache and Facial Pain Center.

Given the FDA's lack of oversight, the FTC is stepping in to regulate homeopathic products.

Jonathan Coulton’s song “The Future Soon” is a sly commentary on our romantic dreams of a better future.

The United States of America is as divided now as it has ever been. Why is this? One author suggests that it is because we have never been one united nation, but 11 differing ones. Founded for different reasons...

We urgently need fresh new thinking in order to address the scale and gravity of today’s global challenges, which have outgrown the present system’s ability to handle them. 

It's not just the dope suits. A review says leadership plays a huge role at both the agency level and executive branch. 

People like Thomas More, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bertrand Russell have already had many of the arguments we're having about basic income today.   Dr. Elise Klein wants to point out the...

A strangely reassuring global directory of close to 8,000 radio stations

Extreme “river in the sky” climate events nearly wiped out the local population of a keystone species, the Olympia oyster.

Could life on Earth have spawned more than once?   

The incoming Trump administration wants to slash NASA's budget. The US Air Force's Space Horizons Team wants to juice America's space program. Here's how.