The business world is right – let’s just get on with the third Heathrow runway, and the extinction of all life on Earth while we’re at it – why delay the inevitable?

Commentator Alva Noë takes a look at a new study showing that PTSD sufferers experience the presence of real threats the rest of us cannot see.

For climate scientists, it can be hard to sleep at night.

A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that federal student aid programs are doing more harm than good. When subsidized federal loans have the effect of "relaxing students’ funding constraints," universities respond by raising tuition to collect the newly available cash. The resultant tuition hikes can be substantial: The researchers found that each additional dollar of Pell Grant or subsidized student loan money translates to a tuition jump of 55 or 65 cents,...

The high-energy X-ray eyes of NASA's NuSTAR have peered into some of the most heavily buried supermassive black holes known.

The panelists discuss vitamin D levels and multiple sclerosis risk, noting that there is some evidence suggesting vitamin D level has some impact on disease severity in multiple sclerosis. They also briefly discuss the gut microbiome and the potential role played by intestinal flora in disease risk.

How two tech consultants fell into one of Europe's biggest drug-smuggling operations

I've enjoyed lots of what has come out of the Vice camp, but never really considered myself a huge devotee and definitely didn't know a lot about the organization. This great article travels through the ways that the outfit is desperately holding on to its roots while growing.

The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which sees its 150th anniversary this year, remains to this day an enigmatic figure. Jenny Woolf explores the joys and struggles of this brilliant, secretive, and complex man, creator of one of the world's best-loved stories.

In a forceful interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, the star economist Thomas Piketty calls for a major conference on debt.

"We figured out how to support weight without any power."

A very well written article by Preshing on uses of semaphores and lock free primitives in various synchronization scenarios.

The oldest public collection of radical history completed a digital archive of over 2,000 posters.

One of science’s most crucial yet underappreciated achievements is the description of the physical universe using mathematics

Scientists have discovered a trippy scene under the Red Sea, full of fluorescent, glowing corals. An international team of researchers discovered the colorful corals at depths of more than 150 feet below the surface and published their findings in PLOS ONE.

Since it opened in 1911, the building has become a New York City landmark, praised not only for its beauty but also for its functional brilliance. In the words of one contemporary architect, the main branch of The New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is "a perfect machine for reading."

Mark Kermode, BBC Radio 5 Movie Reviewer, gives a damning review to the movie Entourage in perhaps his most savage critique yet.

Yes, Androids do dream of electric sheep.

Around the world repressive governments are trying to stop Internet users from either posting anonymously or using encryption to communicate securely. Russia requires bloggers with more than 3,000 visitors to register with the state and identify themselves; pseudonyms are outlawed in Vietnam; Ecuador requires commenters on websites to use their...

Motherboard talks to a handful of the most vocal opponents of Reddit's crackdown on harassment.

Not even a plagiarism scandal could stop D.C.’s 29-year-old king of viral political news.

Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair? There was a period in my life when I spent a lot of time in hotel rooms. It was normal to skit from Shanghai to Dublin via Vilnius and Rome in a month, and then begin the loop all over again: Athens, Novosibirsk, Kuala Lumpur. I travelled alone to these cities and when I got there I was required to stand on stages, sit on panels and talk endlessly.

Since the last time we were together inside his prison lodgings at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a few things have changed. Julian Assange has grown a beard, looks more pallid and pauses when I ask after his general health. His legal team are warning that the shadows of detention without charge are now taking their toll. The caution is not just legal jousting: for more than a thousand days, locked down in cramped space that is nowhere, the pale rebel with a fearless grin has not lived a...

Some mellow music from Hotel New Tokyo and weird dancing by Yuuki Byrnes.

The gallery's latest blockbuster actively blinkers knowledge of the past.

Each year, dozens of Canadian Aboriginal women are murdered or disappear never to be seen again.

The history of Palmyra stretches back to the dawn of human civilization, but it was not until the Roman era that Palmyra reached the level of prosperity needed to build the magnificent ruins now under threat from Islamic State.

A shabby old shop that became an architectural landmark has evaded the bulldozer.

Depending on whom you talk to in the plant sciences today, the field of plant neurobiology represents either a radical new paradigm in our understanding of life or a slide back down into the murky scientific waters last stirred up by “The Secret Life of Plants.” Its proponents believe that we must stop regarding plants as passive objects—the mute, immobile furniture of our world—and begin to treat them as protagonists in their own dramas, highly skilled in the ways of contending in nature.