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Taking a break from technology can actually help you to unlock your inner creativity. Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes a “tech Shabbat” every Saturday, she explained in a conversation with HuffPost…
Difficulty focusing, for many of us, is a daily reality of modern life. How many times do you open your email and get sidetracked from a more important task at…
More than 350 million people globally suffer from depression, and 1 in 13 people around the world have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Overall, the World Health Organization estimates…
If Facebook had existed 20 years ago, when the Internet was still very much in its infancy, the social media site may have looked a little like this. – H/T…
Entrepreneurs, start-up founders and industry experts came from far and wide to connect with each other and get inspired at the event, which ended on January 20. This year the…
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have issued grave warnings about artificial intelligence–saying it has the potential to wipe out humanity. – Here’s to hoping she’s right!
Scientists have long believed that an asteroid impact in what is now Mexico wiped out 80 percent of all species on Earth–including the dinosaurs–about 65 million years ago. But exactly…
An international team of over 300 scientists are taking on an ambitious project to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain by three years on average….
The critics may not think much of it, but Netflix’s big-budget epic series “Marco Polo” is a hit with viewers — at least according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. The…
As those attacks led to public discussions about cybersecurity and geopolitics, and Hollywood’s relation with the two — and as the story moved from Sony to North Korea to the National…
You’re sitting there with some Trader Joe’s dumplings, Netflix and your cat. Suddenly, a text from a beautiful girl or boy appears on your phone. It’s flirty! Emoji are involved!…
In what just might be the most disturbing post-coital ritual on the planet, male ornamental tree trunk spiders (a.k.a. coin spiders) have a habit of biting off their own genitals….
It’s been called the most important ancient human skeleton ever unearthed in North America. But “Kennewick Man”–so named because it was found in 1996 along the banks of the Columbia…
Carl Zimmer MATTER You wouldn’t think hellbenders would be hard to find: The gargantuan salamanders, the biggest amphibians in North America, can grow up to 30 inches long. Yet hellbenders…
Successful methods such as chemotherapy work by killing the cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy tissue. Health practitioners have been searching for a magic bullet that goes straight to…
One of the most priceless treasures in archaeology, the gold funerary mask of King Tutankhamun, was damaged during a cleaning attempt at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Efforts to repair…
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART When Marissa Mayer was offered the chief executive job at Yahoo in the summer of 2012, she had a script for returning the pioneering…
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a headset that will allow people to interact with holographic images, allowing them to play video games and build 3-D models. The headset,…
The surface of the sun is constantly changing. To make sure it doesn’t miss anything, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft is constantly taking photos of the sun. One of…
On Nov. 5, 2013, satirical news site The Onion posted an article claiming that online retailer Overstock was going to create a streaming service for original video content. On Jan….
Even with mounting scientific research and hundreds of clinical studies, the autistic brain remains something of a mystery. Some research has suggested that there is too much connectivity in the…
The open source project recently had its first major breakthrough when its softwaremodeled on the neurons of the worm’s nervous systemindependently controlled a Lego robot. The machine’s sensors, without any…
A lavish ancient tomb in northeastern Greece is a lot more crowded than previously thought. – And the human remains weren’t the only new discoveries made. The ministry announced that…
Amazon is famous for changing prices frequently to test the demand for products or undercut a competitor on hot items like Beats headphones or Razor electric scooters. Read the whole…
Those two Golden Globes could have been Netflix’s. The biggest streaming service in the world, which now boasts more than 57 million members in about 50 countries, had the opportunity…
French company NewWind has created the “Arbre a Vent” or “Wind Tree,” a 3-meter-tall generator designed for urban environments which makes the most of smaller air currents. Operating in near…
Ancient papyrus scrolls charred in the same volcanic eruption that wiped out the city of Pompeii are a step closer to revealing their secrets thanks to a cutting-edge application of…
For those of you who felt stunned and betrayed when Pluto got demoted from planet status, this may come as a bit of a shock. It turns out that two…
A controversial new study from Denmark shows a link between circumcision and autism, although experts differ sharply over what to make of it. For the study, published online Jan. 8,…
What does animal hibernation have to do with Alzheimer’s? More than you might think. According to new research, the way that critters wake up from a long winter’s rest could…