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The fear of running out of charge still drives consumer habits around electric vehicles.

Happiness, says designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, is a broad evaluation of how we feel about our lives over time.

Do you know whether eggs are good for you? What about coffee, red wine, or chocolate?

History has made the term "socialism" vague and unproductive, according to linguistics professor John McWhorter. Should it be retired?

What would happen if genetic sequencing were standard care for undiagnosed diseases? And how can we ensure that the future of genomics benefits everyone, not just the one percent?

Paying for college is becoming more difficult. So is justifying the full-freight cost of some private institutions.

Did you know that 50 percent of oxygen comes from the ocean, that 3 billion people depend on fish for protein, or that the ocean is the largest carbon sink?

The divide between targeted values-based approaches and broad-based efforts remains a fascinating reflection of the tensions inherent in Trump-era women’s organizing.

Talking about how to parent might be one of hardest parts of being a pediatrician.

Promising health care isn’t always enough to meaningfully safeguard the health of a country’s citizens.

Zuckerberg believes government regulation of social media platforms is the best way to handle the complex moral decisions private companies are trying to make on their own.

Musician Yoko Sen remembered listening to the beeping and the chaos when she was in the hospital and wondering if those were the last sounds she would ever hear.

While all emotions are valid, their usefulness might ultimately come down to how well a person is able to interpret the signals that their feelings provide.

Just how unevenly is “upward mobility” dispersed throughout the country?

What if when you posted something on Twitter or Instagram or another service, the platform gave you feedback? For example, “You just upset 10,000 people.”

Computer systems don’t anticipate all the types of people who might use them. What are the innocuous, and more problematic, consequences of this?

Alex Honnold's successful free solo of El Capitan is a remarkable triumph of humankind in collaboration with nature. But let's be careful about what lessons we take away from it.

Valerie Jarrett shares advice on stepping out of your comfort zone, her favorite memories from inside the White House, and how we can empower women and working families.

Small moments of joy are often the first to go when we're stressed or in a crisis. But they're actually a tool to restore our emotional well-being, says designer Ingrid Fetell Lee.

Rick Doblin wants to be a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. Learn about his work using MDMA, or ecstasy, to help people suffering from PTSD.