None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy.

If you want to influence others' decisions, you've got to understand the mental shortcuts they use to make them.

AI systems are beginning to acquire emotions. But whether that means they deserve human-type rights is the subject of a thorny debate.

For millennia, people have sought to unlock the secrets hidden in the minds of others, as well as the mysteries of their own subconscious. Today, emerging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), which allow researchers to read, interpret and map neural activity, offer unprecedented access to the inner workings of our brains as they engage in thinking, sensing and experiencing emotions. 

The ability to learn from experience will likely be a key in enabling robots to help with complex real-world tasks, from assisting the elderly with chores and daily activities, to helping us in offices and hospitals, to performing jobs that are too dangerous or unpleasant for people.

Why bad science persists!

Nightmare at the Carneval

You may not be able to warp space-time, but you can use these two psychological processes to slow your perception of time.

Knowledge is forged in the laboratory, but before it reaches the people, it passes through mediators—the government, the media and the scientific establishment—each with its own agenda.

Even though we sometimes feel we're all wholly unique personalities traversing the internet, we're all really just predictable sheep -- right?

Do apps like Tinder help or hinder our chances at love?

There are plenty of science-backed ways to convince others that you're a modern-day Einstein as soon as you meet them.

Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body

Anthropomorphic thinking is now mainstream science — but not all researchers are happy about that.

Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the information superhighway. We have held these powerful devices in the palms of our hands for the better part of a decade now

Every few days, my attention will be grabbed by some new thing (or, on occasion, some old thing that had slipped my mind). Maybe it’s a movie. Maybe it’s a board game. Maybe it’s a new gadget. Maybe it’s a book. Whatever that thing is, something about it sucks in my attention.

Imagine that one morning you discover a ring that grants you magic powers. With this ring on your finger, you can seize the presidency, rob Fort Knox and instantly become the most famous person on the planet. So, would you do it?

The unconscious is not just un. It works quite differently. So says Tim Crane in a persuasive draft paper which is to mark his inauguration as President of the Aristotelian Society 

I spend a lot of my time on public transport, and one of my favourite pastimes is eavesdropping on other people's conversations. 

In every conversation, there is an unspoken code – a set of social rules that guides you. When to talk, when to stop talking, when to listen, and where to look.