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It’s the first time the U.S. has fallen off the top 10 list since Bloomberg began its index.

According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.

Some games are just for fun, others are for thought provoking statements on life, the universe, and everything.

Rather than one layer at a time, this method creates an entire object all at once, using lasers.

Is Google’s moral compass broken?

Lack of replication is a serious problem in science. So far, no one has an answer.

Tech companies claim the gig economy is booming. Data beg to differ.

When you look at the history of it, a strange pattern emerges.

America’s greatest international impact since World War 2 has been through its diplomacy, not its wars.

For 55 hours, not a speck of coal was used to toast crumpets in England. How did the U.K. give up the dirtiest fossil fuel?

We don’t have to stop inquiring or wondering about the far-flung vistas of reality, we just need to do it with some good old-fashioned logic.

To help dramatize the need for us to open our minds about the potential nature of extraterrestrial life, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats has built instruments and composed music for aliens.

Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines.

Many hoped we could do without dark matter. On cosmic scales, the evidence has finally spoken. For over 40 years, scientists have argued over dark matter’s existence. The extended rotation curve […]

Soccer is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that. And the FIFA World Cup even more so.

What explains our propensity to blame the victim, even in cases of sexual assault and rape? A true story of sexual crime in America reveals some key misunderstandings we may all hold. 

Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?

The online dating world has become more and more profitable as single people search for love.

Or maybe it’s already begun.

A fresh take on the decades-old Drake equation incorporates new factors and greater uncertainty, suggesting a high likelihood that humanity is alone in the universe.

President Donald Trump signed a ‘right-to-try’ bill on Wednesday, but some think the new law will do more harm than good.

The picture itself is breathtaking. But what we learn is truly eye-opening. Galaxy clusters, like the massive one captured here by Hubble, PLCK G004.5–19.5, impress not just for their looks, […]

The Medici family had a long and powerful influence in European history for hundreds of years. They were well known for their banking prowess and are synonymous as an unparalleled patron of the arts during the Italian Renaissance.

Stephen Hawking’s final paper is all about the multiverse, quantum relativity, string theory, relativity and more.

Do you have a magnetic compass in your head?

They may have arisen less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, but the Universe was a very different place back then. When you look out beyond the Milky Way […]

A historical look into the tipple that toppled the British Empire and kick-started America.

Maybe the only chance they have to tell their story before they’re gone.

Consciousness is body-dependent. VR enthusiasts are betting otherwise.

How did Michael Jackson accomplish the famous antigravity tilt? Three neurosurgeons (and MJ fans) dissect the dynamics.