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Stephen Johnson
Executive Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.
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Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is "an assault on the values of the United Nations."
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
On Friday, NASA's InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
Altria Group Inc., maker of Marlboro cigarettes, said it's taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, a major Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider.
The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
Walgreens now competes with Amazon and CVS in the race to dominate the prescription delivery market.
Russia has launched several so-called "inspector satellites" that could potentially be weaponized.
Australia's two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.
Deceased donations could greatly improve fertility treatments for women with uterine problems.
Drug use and arrests are rising overall, but those changes vary depending on the state.
The controversial scientist He Jiankui is currently missing after causing major controversy in late November.
Mothers who tested positive for chemicals found in common cosmetic products were more likely to have girls who hit puberty early.
It was "one of the most complex and intricate endeavors" SpaceX has ever undertaken.
Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is "our greatest threat in thousands of years."
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
It's likely one of the biggest data breaches in corporate history.
Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald's restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.