I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the ...

The dichotomy between reality and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

Dr. Amanda Smith is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and the director of clinical research at the USF Health Byrd ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Societe Generale named Jean-Yves Fillion as the chief executive officer of its Americas division, replacing Stephane About, who has decided to retire, the company said. The French bank on Monday said ...

LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday, opens ...

South Africans reckon there would have been a different outcome had the currently suspended Lood de Jager be playing for Ireland or England. That is according to Springboks legend Jean de Villiers, ...

The brain goes through five distinct phases in life, with key turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83, scientists have revealed. Around 4,000 people up to the age of 90 had scans to reveal the ...