When you're trying to start carbon-based life, not just any carbon isotope will do and the one you need wouldn't even exist without a quirk of quantum mechanics.

Stingy academics inspired a new platform for those doing menial digital work, and not in a good way.

Studies into the health of workers and middle managers leads to the inescapable conclusion that today's work culture is making us miserable and unhealthy.

If taxpayers are going to pay for college, we'll have to make sure that a college education actually yields gainful employment.

A gay-conversion practice is being taken to court for fraud, catching its lawyers and PR consultants off guard as their stock talking points fail to connect.

Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.

Satirical articles about restaurants operated entirely by robots are starting to hit way too close to home...

Michael LaCour's groundbreaking study on how just talking to an LGBT person could change homophobic attitudes was a fraud. But why did it take so longer to uncover it and what does it mean for other researchers?

Even in the age of on-demand knowledge downloaded to a device in the palm of your hand, common misconceptions and urban legends persist.

American seniors are convinced that millennial life is just an orgy of constant casual sex. But research into the matter shows absolutely no evidence of this.

Unfortunately, the Higgs particle doesn't explain the origins of dark matter, sending cosmologists looking for new particles to help fill in the blanks.

Thanks to the Duggar scandals, we're getting a peek at what Quiverful literature says about premarital sex, and its contents are completely untethered from any semblance of reality.

An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.

Some activists want to see virtual crime punished by real world consequences. They do not want to go down that road and what it would entail.

Religious protections and exemptions have gone so far that in certain cases, neglecting and abusing children is legal as long as you claim there's a religious reason for it.