This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping people stick it out and ask the these presidential

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.

The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling

Hunter-gatherers used to populate Europe before ancient farmers took over. Scientists are trying to figure out what happened.

They really didn't have a choice, and they insulated their bodies, not their houses.

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

The most under-reported  and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals, packing boxes, driving trucks, cooking meals, serving tables, and cleaning up the mess.

For thousands of years, people have wondered how these monuments in Egypt were made.

They are one of the most iconic features of the city, but some of them are really scary.

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

It's time to talk about ... wait for it ... the problem with hangers.

A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.

From crayfish to parakeets, these species are at risk of disappearing from the planet.

First identified by a French philosopher more than 250 years ago, it describes how one purchase can lead to another.

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

The jungle wasn't untouched rainforest after all.

Looking more like the delicate work of a fiber artist, this wow-worthy insect has clearly mastered the art of blending in.

Nobody can say for certain. But that doesn't mean that the Conservative politicians have to deny it.

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

From making shoes out of marine debris to the Run For The Oceans global initiative, this dynamic partnership is tackling plastic pollution in a big way.

To end new zoonotic diseases like coronavirus (COVID-19), humans need to start staying in their lanes.

Mother’s Day didn’t always involve buying cards, flowers, and candy, but it’s always been about showing moms love and appreciation.

A new study aims to settle the debate about how and when this invasive species was introduced to the island country.

If you thought that by quitting meat or at least going weekday vegetarian you were doing your part to avoid factory farming,

There is more money in it for the Convenience Industrial Complex.

Years of marketing 'shame' to women led to the health and pollution crises we currently face.

I finally stumbled upon wabi-sabi. But somehow I have always known it.

How did a piece of fabric become a porcelain bowl?

What do you have to do to get tossed out of the "Architects Declare" club?

"This is a tough, tough virus," said disease specialist Dr. Dale Fisher. "All it takes is one infected person and it spreads like wildfire."

Francis Gaskins, director of research at Equities.com, discusses why Candy Crush game maker, King Digital Entertainment, fell nearly 16 percent on its trading debut.

Roughly 60% to 70% of Didi Chuxing's business has bounced back from the coronavirus crisis in China, says Jean Liu, president of the mobile app-based transportation firm.

Alcoa is an integral part of consumers' lives whether they know it or not.

Didi Chuxing is now "even more confident and more committed" to the idea of entering global markets in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, says Jean Liu, president of the mobile app-based transportation firm.

Moderna has received FDA approval for the company's Covid-19 vaccine to continue into the second phase. CNBC's Meg Tirrell reports.

CNBC's Eamon Javers and political reporter Brian Schwartz join the "Power Lunch" team to break down the latest presidential campaign fundraising numbers.

Democratic presidential contender Michael Bennet wants to increase the top income-tax rate paid by the wealthiest Americans to 44%, which experts say exceeds that of other presidential hopefuls to date.

The US and Europe have taken different approaches to tackling pandemic-induced unemployment but which is best long term?

In two, terrible, months the coronavirus pandemic has driven unemployment in the US to levels unseen since the 1930s Great Depression. Did it have to be this way?

Covid-19 has cost more than 33 million Americans their jobs in the last seven weeks – 10% of the entire US population. The official unemployment rate had shot up from 4.4% to 14.7% on Friday – a figure that probably wildly underestimates the true scale of job losses.

Using the Fifa archive we rewatch a series of memorable games in search of answers we didn’t find at the time

“It was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness” – Albert Camus, the Outsider

The World Cup final, France v Italy in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. It’s still humid under the lights. The score is 1-1, the players wide-eyed but still running.

Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments today. Typically psychologists look for a difference in the time it takes participants to respond to stimuli under different conditions as evidence of differences in how cognitive processing occurs in those conditions. Galton, the famous … Continue reading "Did the Victorians have faster reactions?"