You just won the big $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot and you’re feeling like, well, a billion bucks. Charles Passy covers a variety of topics, includingpersonal finance, food, entertainment and ...

The "Oracle of Omaha" normally doesn't invest in technologies he doesn't understand. But he has done so in these two cases. Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once stated, "No ...

The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge professor has an answer: somewhere between the Eurasian beaver and a meerkat.

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given more than $7 billion to organizations globally since last December, according to a list she published on her website Tuesday along with an essay ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post. By Nicholas Kulish and Theodore ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...