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Can We Annihilate War With Science?
In The Better Angels of our Nature, published last month, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that we have misread...
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How Age Shapes Political Outlook
A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds wide gaps in how different generations view politics. Older voters...
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Mental Problems Gave Early Humans an Edge
Penny Spikins at the University of York believes that mental illness and conditions such as autism persist at such...
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4 Bold Ideas to Make America’s Energy Supply Safer, Cleaner & Virtually Inexhaustible
To explore a future in which the United States powers itself both independently and cleanly, Discover teamed up with...
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Why Corruption Is Normal
New research shows that anyone can be corrupted at the drop of a hat. Indeed, when looked at in...
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Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)
Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other...
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Talking Their Way Out of a Population Crisis
In many parts of Africa, people already scramble to obtain food, land, and water, and discontent provides fertile ground...
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Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution
Eric Beinhocker’s "The Origin of Wealth" offers exciting metaphors for rethinking Darwinism and evolutionary theory.
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Mass Species Loss Stunts Evolution for Millions of Years
Biological diversity—something that’s now imperiled by human appetites—may be a sustaining, stabilizing force on planetary scales, and its disruption...
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Solving Big Problems
We can best work toward addressing and solving the Big Problems related to food, population, water, energy, the environment,...
