Orion Jones

A new book of philosophy, which attempts to reconcile the storied history of psychoanalysis with current neurological research, may have important implications for clinical treatments.

Researchers have found no evidence that we experience Mondays as far worse than other days of the week, yet we persist in believing Mondays are bad due to the nature of the brain.

A pair of Canadian researchers have arrived at a new understanding of boredom by examining what the word means to different disciplines. Our age may be the most bored yet.

The pace of urbanization and the development of megacities is causing an untold public health crisis, say international health agencies who study development and pollution. 

This year’s prizes in medicine and chemistry celebrate advancements in genetics that could revolutionize stem cell treatment and create pharmaceutical drugs with far fewer side effects. 

New ways of understanding how tumor cells communicate with each other may yield fresh results in cancer research, according to findings recently released from Johns Hopkins University. 

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have used tracking data from personal mobile phones to map transmission patterns of malaria, enabling more effective prevention schemes. 

Senator Bernie Sanders believes that creating massive cash rewards for drug companies will spur the innovation necessary to make new drugs and bring down the cost of prescriptions.

Researchers at Ohio State University say that the more educated you are, the more likely it is that you are piling up extra debt, and not just when it comes to student loans. This belies the notion that uneducated/undereducated people bear blame for the financial crisis.

A new study says that more colleges are dramatically redefining themselves away from the liberal arts model, with potentially dire consequences for higher education overall.

Stepped-up security measures at airports have decreased the number of terrorist-related deaths during air travel, but there’s a gap in similar security for people traveling on the ground that should be taken more seriously.

Web site HeTexted takes the whole agony over a potential suitor’s mixed messages to a new, crowd-sourced level.

A study out of Carnegie Mellon University says that the more you anticipate guilty feelings, the more likely it is you’ll do the right thing even if no one is watching.

With three years of testing behind it, the bra could be on the market in the US by 2014 with FDA approval.

Alternatives to needle injections have been sought after for many years, and the results have had varying degrees of success. A team of scientists think they’ve come up with a solution.

Customers in underserved parts of America may soon be able to get reliable 4G wireless broadband via a frequency normally occupied by short-range communication devices.

It might look like the C-1, a fully-electric and fully-encased two-wheel vehicle being developed by a small San Francisco startup.

Keyboards and mice are about to get some competition from wearable sensors that allow users to control electronics with gestures.

A new study indicates that, contrary to expectations based on increased awareness and conservation, bird species have been dying out at increased rates since the middle of the 20th century.

In Florida over the past week, two people were struck in separate incidents, one of whom died. However, the number of deaths due to lightning has gone down steadily since the 1940s.

A company has completed a prototype of a robot designed specifically to look for lunar ice, a potentially rich source of water and other materials for use during other lunar expeditions.

A new software system enables cities to pinpoint emissions at a much greater level of detail than ever before, allowing for better, more targeted solutions.

Defying researchers’ expectations, cougars are traveling westward into the Sierra Nevada mountains, possibly because of a greater selection of prey.

By the end of the year, the Copyright Alert System will be instituted by the nation’s major ISPs with the backing of the US government.

Specific Media, which took over the company in 2011, is in the process of creating an entirely new site designed around its most loyal constituency: musicians and their fans.

Revealed today at the Frankfurt Book Fair: The Beagle, a small, AAA-battery-driven device that is expected to sell for less than $13 when offered through mobile carriers.

A company now offers visualizations of audio waveforms as prints suitable for framing. Included in the collection are speeches from Kennedy, King, Reagan, Obama, and others.

Art.sy, which launched on Monday, hopes to give users an easy entree into the world of fine art with the help of hefty financial backing, art historians, and many art institutions.

Through a process called “codetermination,” large companies must elect half their board according to employee vote. A recent review of studies shows almost uniformly positive results.

Rome is the latest Italian city to pass laws forcing tourists to show more respect by banning the eating of food at its many historic sites.