Orion Jones

To be more innovative and productive, break out of the office culture.

The US Navy is funding a research effort to equip robots with the decision making tools necessary to make split-second decisions between right and wrong. 

Income inequality has a stronger presence in the American social conscience today than it has had since the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, and social scientists say there is more than money at stake.

Without access to CDC labs to identify which strains of the virus are circulating, new mutations could be missed.

Currently, about 40 percent of agricultural products go to wast, a percentage that would not be acceptable in any other industry.

Experts say that wireless devices could let more of their health care happen at home.

As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult.

The success of an employee working from home depends on the person, on the job and on the training the organization provides to do that role remotely.

The emergence of freewill in the human species is a result of evolution, not a brute fact.

So what can you do if you tend to give a lot in a friendship and don’t always get what you need in return?

All the self-analyzing and, in turn, self-promotions, that we interact with through digital and social technologies has actually created a caring economy based on shared values. 

Conflict avoidance, reconciliation and cooperative problem solving could also have been altogether “biological” and positively selected for.

While personalized health systems offer some promise, there is reason to worry about their larger social effects.

Other drugs could potentially be integrated into the ring, such as contraceptives or antiviral drugs to prevent other sexually transmitted infections.

Despite recent medical developments, our understanding of the brain is still quite incomplete.

Researchers in Illinois have created the world’s first prosthetic controlled entirely by the user’s mind.

Children not only need to nap, but should be encouraged to nap.

Suppose you knew that Earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect you?

Scientists are using brain scan technology to hone individuals’ ability to control the direction and precision of their own thoughts.

Planet Earth will be able to sustain life for another 1.75 billion years, after which point the surface will become too hot to support liquid water.

Imagining a bumblebee with a bull’s head is a seemingly effortless task, but actually requires the brain to construct an entirely new and unreal image.

According to recent neurological insight, the muse is more apt to reward long periods of sustained concentration than intermittent fits of vision.

Research shows that a good night’s sleep—seven hours or more—results in better and more prolonged exercise sessions later that day.

Information technology will change health care in ways similar to how Amazon changed the landscape of the retail industry.

More than anything else, eating an excessive number of calories is what makes people fat.

Ironically, what are called “compatibility genes” give each person their individuality.

Behavior that would constitute psychosis in adults may be (an unpleasant) part of children’s natural emotional development.

Clean spaces may be too conventional for the release of creative ideas.

Pre-birth nutrition contributes to the “programming” of health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process.

The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?