Orion Jones

The design company behind Turkish Air and Lufthansa’s rebranding is working to create a new airplane interior that will save space, economize fuel use, and make your travel experience more comfortable.

When the Common Core was introduced as a national standard for English and mathematics classes, it was adopted by 45 of 50 states, but the homeschooling movement has opposed it.

As the angst of healthy people everywhere has turned toward sugar, health experts say there is a larger take away than treating sweet foods as the new health culprit.

The scientific study of happiness has for years recommended that people use their money to purchase experiences–dinner with friends or a vacation with a loved one–rather than material goods.

For teens with a summer job, few things are further from their minds than saving for retirement. But parents and guardians might be advised to help them open a Roth individual retirement account.

Although marijuana is now legally available for purchase in Colorado, the black market for it is thriving. The reason is high prices. Legal sales of marijuana are taxed at nearly 30%.

Renewable energy startup Glint Photonics has created a new material that, when used to cover photovoltaic cells on solar panels, can capture more energy with less infrastructure.

In place of brainstorming, researchers recommend a process called “brainwriting,” the general concept being that idea generation and idea discussion should exist separately.

The new sci-fi thriller “Lucy”, written by Luc Besson and starring Scarlett Johansson, has rekindled the popular notion that humans only use a small portion of their available brain power. 

Bottling doesn’t necessarily result in a more severe explosion of negative emotion down the line. According to studies which gave participants pillows to punch, actively expressing your anger makes you more aggressive.

A study which constructed a faux business deal has found that women are more frequently lied to in negotiations than men. Added to that, men are more likely to be given insider information 

Sociologist Carl Stemple argues that upper middle class Americans avoid “excessive displays of strength,” viewing the bodybuilder look as vulgar overcompensation for wounded manhood.

The long-term costs of ignoring climate change will dwarf those caused by cutting carbon emissions in the short term, according to a new report released by the President’s council of economic advisors.

The Times joined a growing chorus of federalists and anti-prohibitionists when its editorial board recently called for the federal government to defer to state law on the marijuana question.

Any human population sent from Earth to colonize another planet–whether it be Mars, a moon of Jupiter, or a rock beyond our solar system–should number from 20,000 to 40,000 people. 

“At a starting price of around $35,000, a third of the cost of a top-range Model S, Tesla wants the car to compete against the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedans.”

Widener University’s Dr. Hal Shorey has put forward five suggestions we can all take to keep a normal argument from turning into relationship poison.

Experts say it could be decades before autonomous cars are ready for cities. 

Some have theorized powerful people lack empathy because they do not need the less-powerful to access important resources. But contemporary neuroscientists have a different explanation.

While theism continues to unite the vast majority of the world’s population, westerners of a certain age have never before accepted atheism with such enthusiasm.

Google and contact lens maker Novartis have teamed up to create a contact lens that measure glucose levels in the eye with a device–about the size of a speck of glitter–that takes chemical readings.

Sleep researchers are finding ways you can take advantage of your brain while you sleep. You won’t master a foreign language overnight but you can consolidate the knowledge you learned during the day.

In the style of Silicon Valley start ups, a group of engineers under the name Tri Alpha Energy have successfully raised $150 million in venture capital to build a fusion reactor.

Columbia grad and former Yale professor William Deresiewicz is making waves with a sizable invective against his alma maters, as well as other Ivy League institutions.

“[M]aybe decades or millenniums from now — here or someplace yet to be imagined — science on Earth, circa 2014, will look like nothing more than a good start.”

Half of computer programmers surveyed by the Financial Times expect machines to outsmart humans by 2040, and a stunning 90 percent expect this “superinteliigence” to emerge by 2075.

In response to widespread protest, including an appeal from the United Nations, the city of Detroit has granted a two-week reprieve to residents who are more than two months past-due on their municipal water bills.

Creating and maintaining social relationships is perhaps the distinguishing feature of human intelligence, say contemporary archeologists. And it’s this feature that allowed humans to prosper.

It’s only natural to want to know why things went wrong, but to know why things went right takes a different kind of persistence, says Cinnabon president Kat Cole.

It’s long been held that eight hours is the magic number when it comes to sleeping, but that number clashes with reality–when’s the last time you got a solid eight hours?