The remarkable statistic that puts the fight against poverty into perspective
There are dozens of ways to measure humanity's progress over the last couple centuries, including reductions in childhood mortality, disease, and hunger.
There are dozens of ways to measure humanity's progress over the last couple centuries, including reductions in childhood mortality, disease, and hunger.
Over the course of an eight-hour workday, the average employee works for about three hours — two hours and 53 minutes, to be more precise.
Today's teens are in no hurry to grow up, a new study finds.
New data from Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare shows that the country has broken its record for the number of people living past their 100th birthday.
Over the past few years, Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings have all endorsed a teaching method known as "personalized learning."
A monthly check of $1,000 delivered to every American adult would grow the US economy by roughly $2.5 trillion over eight years, a new study found.
Schools in 45 states have pushed their start times back to fall in line with research that looks at the biological clock of adolescents.
最新研究显示,随着越来越多的人选择独居、推迟或是放弃婚姻,并且回归智能手机,孤独率在美国空前暴增。
In 2012, the US government put on its futurist hat and published a report entitled "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds."
You may not know your neighbors by name, but you can at least know them by education level.
Cities are the way of the future.
Unless you're famous for doing something terrible, having your own Wikipedia page is probably a point of pride.
More high school students in the US are graduating than ever before, in part because of rising grade-point averages. But a new study suggests the trend isn't cause for celebration.
As more people opt to live alone, delay or forego marriage, and recede into their smartphones, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing in the United States, according to new research.
According to Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University who has been studying decision-making for over a decade, the surest way to maximize happiness has nothing to do with e...