Orion Jones

No single factor can explain the aging process. Rather, lifespan is determined by complex interactions among diet, mitochondrial DNA, and nuclear DNA.

The popular phrase meant to guide your decisions through the weeds of life to the garden of self-fulfillment is more harmful than helpful.

We know several key things lie ahead for our planet: an aging population, climate change, a changing energy economy, immigration, and new personal technologies.

Private space companies are gearing up for their most active year yet as they work to create a space tourism market and exploit resources beyond the planet.

Andy Warhol’s exhibition, titled 13 Most Wanted Men, didn’t raise eyebrows when it was reviewed for submission to the 1964 New York World’s Fair…

Our unbridled enthusiasm for data-driven technology is dangerous, says cultural critic Evgeny Morozov, because it encourages us to adopt a particularly skewed understanding of the concept of freedom.

Because states are increasingly given to using untested chemicals to carry out executions, some legislatures have passed secrecy laws that shield the chemical providers from public scrutiny.

Recent studies indicate there is real linguistic and psychological significance to seemingly useless words such as “um”, “like”, and “you know,” according to the Journal of Language and Social Psychology.

Is there a conscientious struggle to balance rights with obligations in our contemporary political landscape, or does the individual rule our ideology?

The next generation of the Internet will be more deeply integrated into our lives through our use of everyday objects, from house keys, to coffee cups, to our pet’s food bowl.

All of Isaac Newton’s posthumous writings are now available online so that anyone can discover the complexity of this brilliant man’s life.

Can you find meaning in life? Do you have the courage to see what is right in front of you? That was the task with which Camus challenged the world in the wake of WWII.

Businesses and residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee, enjoy faster Internet than any other city in the country thanks to the Gig, its tax-payer funded fiber-optics network.

When people were asked to throw a fat man off a bridge to save the lives of others (you know, ethics?), they were more likely to do so when the question was posed in their second language. 

New surveys conducted by the Harvard Business School suggest a more complicated picture of deadlines, and understudying their nuanced relationship to creativity can help you do your best work–on time!

A British submarine may be the first to test quantum locational technology capable of measuring an object’s relative position 1,000 times more accurately than current GPS.

Our medical knowledge of cerebral dysfunctions like epilepsy is casting new light on some famously religious characters like Joan of Arc, Saint Paul, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The number of tech startups is up, but the number of entrepreneurs in American is down. And it’s been on the decline since the 1970s, according to new data that accounts for the rise of the franchise.

Active teaching, defined as engaging students in the process of learning through activities and/or discussion in class, is far more effective than passively listening to a lecture.

A theoretical contradiction may lie at the heart of the multiverse theory, which says that our universe is but one in a series of potentially infinite universes.

Melissa Gira Grant, former sex worker and author of the new book Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, argues for a more holistic understanding of individuals who work as prostitutes. 

Education is a more effective weapon against violent extremism than Obama’s military drones.

Guaranteeing everyone in America an income of $1,000 per month is a bold new path out of the current economic slump, which has created some of the widest income inequalities in modern history.

This June, an online data collection company called DataCoup will begin seeking individuals willing to sell their personal information to large corporations for a direct profit.

Following in the footsteps of other health-monitoring devices, a new internet-connected lighter is designed to help you quit smoking by measuring your tobacco intake.

Wealthy indivdiuals are working longer hours today than ever before, unlike past generations to whom leisure time was a primary indicator of their wealth.

Cash-strapped nutritional organizations have steadily increased the extent to which their views are influenced by large food companies from PepsiCo, Domino’s Pizza, Nestlé, and so on.

If cars were powered by thorium, a super-dense energy source far more compact than coal, your mode of transport could last over 100 years between fueling stations.

Rising concerns over the timetable for climate change highlight to extent to which humans remain shortsighted in their concern for future generations.

A pair of scientists in California are believed to have discovered a potent genetic cause of cognitive variation. The gene in question is called KL-VS.