Orion Jones

In order to combat traffic jams and choking pollution, China will attempt to decrease the amount of cars in its major cities by imposing stricter limits on automobile purchases.

Obstacles are beginning to emerge in China’s massive urbanization plan, which will see 250 million farmers migrate from rural settings to urban population centers over the next decade. 

Japanese scientists have found that listening to sad music may actually evoke positive emotions, even though the experience of sadness itself is widely considered to be negative emotion. 

Making the leap from renting to buying isn’t always what it seems. Homeowners spend less time on leisure activities with friends and report that they derived some pain from homeownership.

Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.

New research completed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a specific gene that may help manage our skill level for organizing things logically. 

More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person’s intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.

Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.

A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually. 

Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.

All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.

A study of 159 men and women enrolled in cognitive behavioral therapy has found that those patients who believed in God were more likely to receive the benefits of the therapy.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found Mexico to be the world’s most obese country with an obesity rate of 32.8 percent, a full point higher than the United States’.

Through the worst portions of the global financial crisis, the price of gold skyrocketed from $300 per ounce to $1,900 as investors looked for a foothold in the rocky economic terrain.

The coup that ousted Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood suggests that Islam still has no stable footing on which to shoulder the responsibilities of modern governance, according to professor Olivier Roy.

The increasing desertification of Africa, thought to be a product of climate change, creates resource shortages which in turn give rise to armed militas intent on controlling their distribution.

The technology that will enable vehicles to drive themselves has shown much promise. So much promise, in fact, that industry experts believe private drivers as well as industry will inevitably adopt them.

Princeton scientists have found that mice are less anxious about experiencing stressors, such as entering a pool of cold water, when they are allowed regular exercise.

Individuals who meditate benefit from an increased flow of oxygen to the brain. Now scientists believe that meditation can confer benefits on others, even if they do not meditate themselves.

Scientists have located the specific brain region involved in the spread of ideas. Called the temporoparietal junction, it could help clarify why some ideas fall flat while others go viral.

What is lost in our rush to personalize solutions to societal problems, says Evgeny Morozov, is the fact that broad political solutions, such as regulation of industry, can prove very effective.

If you occasionally think your phone is vibrating when it’s actually not, you are among the 80 percent of people who make the same mistake. But this error in perception is not an impending sign of madness.

Researchers have found that most people confuse foods which manufacturers label as “healthy” with low-calorie meal options. As a result, it is easier for people to overeat without knowing it.

Nearly a year after going off their anti­retroviral drugs, two men previously infected with HIV are still showing no signs of the virus thanks to a dramatic bone marrow transplant.

Researchers want to help people quit smoking by taking the fight against nicotine addiction to the nano scale. Thanks to a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

An Indiana-based technology startup is working to create new heads for computer hard drives that could improve their storage density and assist in the development of light-driven cancer therapies.

Japanese scientist have successfully grown human liver cells from stem cells, implanting them into mice which, for the first time, has resulted in three-dimensional functional liver structures.

Edward Snowden’s illegal disclosure of NSA surveillance techniques will loom over upcoming trade negotiations between the US and EU called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The top 200 chief executives at America’s largest public companies received an average pay raise of 16 percent for fiscal year 2012. Their companies’ returns rose by an average of 19 percent.

The children will come and go as they please, as long as they are present during the core period between 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The building will only be closed for Christmas and New Year’s.