Many Scandinavian countries even have open prisons — minimum security institutions that rely less on force and more on trust. Back in the US, this might seem like an unattainable ideal. But in California, nearly 80 years ago, there was an open prison.
MySpace users were recently shocked to learn that the company lost 50 million user files. It’s a harsh lesson in not leaving your intellectual property unprotected on the information superhighway.
I believe the rise in the number of presidential candidates in recent years results from divisions within the party coalitions and from easier access to vital campaign resources — money and media — that were not present in previous election cycles.
A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed the island until around A.D. 700-1000.
A recent study shows people living in parts of southern Europe have a higher mental well-being than those living in the north.
DST saves lives and energy and prevents crime. Not surprisingly, then, politicians in Washington, California and Florida are now proposing to move to DST year-round.
China’s recent scientific achievements — including its embryo gene-editing research and historic moon landing — appear to be surrounded by secrecy.
There’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are turning to nerdy hacker types as guides.
Recently, an MIT group reported that they had developed a new technique for taking bias out of algorithms without compromising accuracy. But is fixing algorithms the best way to combat unfairness?
Despite reported claims, there’s currently little scientific evidence that digital detoxes have any benefits.
A new study shows that emotional analysis technology assigns more negative emotions to black men’s faces than white men’s faces.
Although relatively unknown today, Göttingen, a small German university town, was for a time one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history.
Even before the table got its permanent right-angle flip, folks suggested some weird and wonderful twists.
Environmentally conscious consumers often ask me whether a real Christmas tree or an artificial one is the more sustainable choice, a question that is also a concern for the Christmas tree industry, which is wary of losing market share to artificial trees.
Dark matter and dark energy have always been treated as separate phenomena. But my new study suggests they may both be part of the same strange concept — a single, unified “dark fluid” of negative masses.
Light in the morning — more than any other time of day — leads to powerful brain-boosting effects, helping us to function as best we can, despite the approaching winter.
As the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Wild unleash a week of dueling shark programs, a biologist advises viewers to take what they see with a large grain of sea salt.
From mind-controlled drones to “Eternal Sunshine” drugs that help soldiers forget, brain science has a long history in the military.
