Show up an hour late in Brazil, and no one bats an eyelash. But keep someone in Switzerland waiting for five or 10 minutes, and you have some explaining to do. Time is elastic in many cultures but ...

Manila, Philippines – Science met culture at “It’s all Relative: Discovering the Filipino Identity through Forensic Science”, hosted by Asia Society Philippines, with the support of Asian Institute of ...

Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked up into the night sky, enraptured by the glow of the moonlight. Hanging less than 250,000 miles above the Earth, the moon has inspired artists like ...

CEO of 2predict, a data science services company. CTO of Volta Charging, an EV charging station company. MIT Connection Science Fellow. You’ve developed a platform that’s gaining significant customer ...

Iain Banks is probably best known in the United States for his 1984 debut novel, “The Wasp Factory,” but fans of science fiction love him for his Culture series (published under the name Iain M. Banks ...

This spring, President Obama announced what could be this generation's defining national science effort — an ambitious mission to map the human brain. In its size and scope, the project could claim a ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. How often do you, outside the requirements of an assignment, ...

The belugas were due to arrive in droves, but Gregory O’Corry-Crowe was nervous. Just a few years into a postdoctoral biology fellowship, O’Corry-Crowe had taken this opportunity in 1998 to fly to ...

In a video released today at Edge.org, psychologist Simone Schnall raises interesting questions about the role of replication in social psychology and about what counts as "admissible evidence" in ...

We’ve written before on the importance of creating priorities, habits, and systems (PHS) when it comes to large-scale culture change. But with so many organizations taking a renewed—or perhaps ...

What is the biggest nightmare of an Asian parent? A common answer may be parenting a child who is modern, individualistic, self-centered, outspoken, and rebellious. Contradictorily, a western parent ...