The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists using magnetic resonance imaging. The brains of people with excellent ...

This time, we are leaving aside all the questions we all know, such as “What is the capital of France?” or “What does H₂O stand for?”. Instead, we’re diving deeper into a wide range of challenging ...

This AS degree, offered by RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, serves as a bridge program for qualified students based on academic transcripts, admission test scores, and other evidence ...

Test your science knowledge by taking the interactive quiz. The short quiz tests your knowledge of questions recently asked in a national poll. After completing the quiz, you can compare your score ...

Scoring full marks on a general knowledge quiz is rare. Scoring full marks on this one would be remarkable. Welcome back to yet another general knowledge quiz! We’ve designed these 32 questions to ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...

Visitors explore an interactive exhibit on pterosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) Spoiler alert: If you haven’t already done so, test yourself ...

True or false might sound simple, but don’t be fooled. These questions can be sneakier than they look. Sometimes the most obvious answer is actually wrong, and sometimes the strange-sounding one turns ...

In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...