A new app is collecting real-time data on people's emotions to create a global mental-health snapshot.

In The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, German forester Peter Wohlleben chronicles what his own experience of managing a forest in the Eifel mountains in Germany has taught him about the astonishing language of trees and how trailblazing arboreal research from scientists around the world reveals "the role forests play in making our world the kind of place where we want to live." As we're only just beginning to understand nonhuman consciousnesses, what emerges from Wohlleben's revelatory reframing of our oldest companions is an invitation to see anew what we have...

Sundrop Farms' system creates 39 megawatts of energy per day, enough to maintain 18,000 tomato plants inside a greenhouse. Sustainable farming could be the key to dealing with food shortages brought...

This tablet's smart liquids create raised Braille on the screen.

The carbon-enhanced silk conducts electricity, is twice as tough as regular silk, and can withstand at least 50 percent higher stress before breaking. This smart textile could have applications in medicine, athletics, wearable electronics...the possibilities are endless.

After exchanging hand-drawn postcards for a year, two data designers discover how compiling and parsing the little things in life can lead to unexpected self-reflection-- and friendship.

We can’t help it. We’re sense-making beings, us humans. And so you and I are always living our lives from a sense of story. The story profoundly shapes our interactions with other peopl…

Have you ever been in a situation where, morally, you know how you want to act or respond, but instead react differently due to outside pressures and influences? If yes, you are certainly not alone. This insightful article from the Greater Good Science Center, offers up three useful practices that can help you stay true to your core values.

Drawing is like talking! And, you can use it to lead, influence, and persuade - even if you think you can't draw.

In this TED Talk, best-selling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant shares the habits of what he calls “originals”—people who dream up and execute new ideas. On the creativity scale, Grant shows...

A solar panel alternative for those in cloudy climates might be around the corner

Navajo is a notoriously hard language. While you may not want to go out and learn it to fluency, you can at least learn the basic colors.

When you were a baby, you were helpless and dependent upon your parents and caregivers for nurturance and sustenance. You were the recipient of other people's care. Your caregivers fed you food...

These puzzling holes in the arid valleys of southern Peru tell us there was once a flourishing, sophisticated society here

There’s something oddly soothing about listening to music on vinyl.

“Piipshow” is a delightful live stream of a bird feeder in Norway that is modeled to look like a hip...

Learn how an unexpected animal adoption led to the creation of a fair trade organic coffee company o...

How often do we burden imagination - and the artistic product of imagination - with prosaic expectat...

Fred Hill recounts the history of poetry on the Tube and the Subway — and argues that the presence o...

In a move designed to remind young people that culture can enrich one’s life and bring people togeth...

“The central, final, inescapable fact is that inspired words create life in us because they are them...

We are only just beginning to understand how easy access to information is reshaping how we think.

Some say we’re in a post-fact age – but what does that mean for journalism? Along with John Owen, chairman of the Frontline Club, and Juan Señor from Innovation Media Consulting, a firm helping media

We look into the use – and misuse – of that much-thrown around word “curator”; can a shop window be curated like a fine-art gallery can be? We speak to art experts, writers and delve in to the murky w

In 1789, a Swiss physicist named Horace Bénédicte de Saussure decided to solve a riddle that had been bothering scientists, philosophers and four-year...

We asked leading scientists to predict the future. Here’s what they had to say

Henneke shares how to harness the power of visual language, which makes readers not only remember -- but also love -- your ideas.