Explore how the stress of modern life is drastically reducing attention spans, now averaging just five minutes. Discover why this matters. Just a few hours ago, I drafted a post about a crap science ...

[Note 5/24/12: I'm away from the desk this week. This post originally ran on February 28, 2011, and stirred a lot of online discussion; still fully current, and I suspect will be so for a while.] I ...

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Philip Davis decided to test whether open access journals — which make the author pay for publication of research findings — employ first-rate peer review. Or might they be tempted to accept less than ...

AI is far from magic, says the mathematician and broadcaster, but it does have transformative potential – if we can find the right applications for it ...