Orion Jones

A dual-track system of getting a higher education while working is helping Germany keep youthful unemployment at about eight percent, far lower than southern European states like Spain and Greece.

The 2000s were the first decade since the Great Depression to end with a net loss in jobs despite the fact that economic prosperity is one-third higher than it was 20 years ago. 

The discovery of a specific age-related signaling pathway in the brain’s hypothalamus opens up new strategies for combating diseases of old age and extending lifespan, possibly by decades.

Interruptions during work cost us precious mental resources, according to a new study out of Carnegie Mellon. The effects of distraction, in theory, are enough to drop students one letter grade.

The new manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness includes “Internet Use Disorder”, and erases the distinction between grieving over the loss of a loved one and full-blown depression. 

There remains a substantial debate in the scientific community over whether brain training games really work to build the brain or just make you better at the isolated tasks which the games assign.

“While there’s quite a lot of research that shows memory worsens as we get older, perhaps the way we choose what to remember is a means of adapting to changes in brain function.” 

Scientists at Princeton University have created a bionic ear using a three-dimensional home printer and combined the prosthesis with electronics that can “hear” radio frequencies.

A new solution of particles at the nano scale has been developed by a consortium of American universities that, in mice, has proven effective at controlling type 1 diabetes for days on end. 

Popular folklore advises against eating on the go because it causes indigestion, contributing to discomfort and weight gain, but to ask medical professionals, you might think what your mother told you was not entire accurate.

Just minutes after meditating, participants in a recent experiment showed beneficial changes to their genetic profile with helpful genes becoming more active and harmful ones becoming less so. 

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national suicide rate has increased dramatically in the past decade such that self-inflicted deaths now outnumber those caused by motor accidents.

Physicists at the world’s biggest physics lab, the CERN laboratories on the French-Swiss border, have collected initial findings on anti-matter which suggest it might also have anti-gravity properties.

Located 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets whose size and orbits make them the exoplanets most similar to Earth yet.

The day marked the first time a commercial plane broke the sound barrier since the supersonic Concorde was retired in 2003. Soon, Virgin’s craft will be travelling faster than the Concorde.

The explosion of a meteor above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in mid-February, while sparing lives and damage to the city, served as a stark reminder of Earth’s vulnerability to asteroids. 

If we are to ever reach beyond our own planet, possibly colonizing asteroids and Jupiter’s moon Europa, we need a better propellant system. Rocket scientists recommend nuclear power. 

The online commerce giant eBay is considering accepting the virtual currency Bitcoin. The retailer would use its Paypal payments network to exchange the currency online for goods and services.

Using 2.5 billion mobile call records from five million cell-phone users in Ivory Coast, IBM has created a system of bus routes estimated to cut workers’ commute time by ten percent.

National governments are increasingly less likely to collect personal data on identification cards because they will soon simply purchase your personal information from companies.

To commemorate the moment when the Internet became a public facility, Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team are bringing back the very first website ever published at its original URL.

While technology companies once focused on simple biological gestures to operate electronic products, today they are working to harness the power of the mind to alter physical realities.

A pair of British authors is set to release a new book next month detailing the adverse health consequences of economic austerity programs on the citizens of nations who implement such measures.

The use of algorithms to find patterns in massive amounts of data, executing trading decision based upon the frequency of certain keywords across millions and millions of messages, is becoming more frequent.

While the Chinese economy is said to have kept the world afloat through the latest economic crises, reformers have also pressured China to cultivate a more consumer-oriented economy.

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, Americans are not clamoring for trumped up security. What is more likely, say experts, is a gradual increase in the amount of “soft security”. 

It is neither the case that there are too few programmers in America (programmer unemployment currently sits at an all-time high) nor is the education system failing to teach the necessary skills.

Too many patients who are dying of natural causes receive dramatic surgeries near the end of their lives, only serving to sustain their pain and suffering while seldom adding time to their lives. 

While most scientists are non-believers, a few influential researchers have recently written in favor of a new harmony between theology and science supported by the overwhelming power of mystery. 

Even professional poker players who have spent careers mastering an expressionless face, no matter how high the stakes, are apt to indicate the quality of their hand to their opponents.