It’s easy to think of words such as California or Texas or New York as just the places on the map, but those words actually meant something, once, and those meanings offer a little glimpse into history.
Nearly half of all top developers now use Facebook’s mobile app install ads as a main channel to acquire traffic.
Architectural firms C.F. Møller and Dinell Johansson and consultant Tyréns have recently collaborated on a proposal to build the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper in Stockholm, Sweden.
Just over a month and a half into her attempt to prove that living on sunlight alone was possible, Breatharian Navenna Shine of Seattle has decided to end her "experiment."
Europe and North America could be joined, creating new mountain chains.
Have you ever wondered what a clam does when there’s salt within its reach? Well, today’s your lucky day.
Apple Inc. won a $30-million contract Tuesday from the Los Angeles Unified School District, paving the way for the company to provide every student with an iPad in the nation's second-largest school system.
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
James Gandolfini has died in Italy at the age of 51 of a possible heart attack.
It's 1.3 billion pixels large and was and was stitched together from nearly 900 pictures taken by Curiosity's onboard cameras.
Last month, Food Network chef Paula Deen gave a videotaped deposition as part of a discrimination suit she’s facing. Sounds like the perfect time to spout some racist fantasies and drop the N word, right?
Ever since the World War I, when aces like the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen patrolled the skies, the fighter pilot has held a special place in the imagination. But that status could now be under threat, because the next generation of combat aircraft may dispense with the pilot altogether.
Thomas Edison invented tomorrow in Schenectady. And here, Eric Anderson wants to invent the tomorrow after that — a future of endless digital information and the means to make sense of it. In other words, a future of Big Data.
The U.S. Navy has confirmed the shocking news that Cap'n Crunch, the legendary explorer of many an uncharted cereal bowl, is a fraud.
It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until 2011.
Behind the scenes of "Newsroom's" second season, and likely last chance.
Silicon Valley has a serious imagination problem.
The dietary impacts of smoking alcohol.
Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment instead of moving it as it prepares to leave Afghanistan.
Despite shooting a handful of scenes as Mary Jane Watson in Sony’s "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," Shailene Woodley will not be appearing in the superhero sequel after all.
An industrial mechanic with General Electric Co., who is also allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan, designed a truck mounted radiation particle weapon capable of silently aiming a lethal beam of radioactivity at its human targets.
“Prison is for real men” is an old saying we have in Syria, and one that I kept repeating to myself as I paced anxiously back and forth across my small, dingy cell in an almost hypnotic trance of meditation.
Meet the Women for Weiner.
International fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were sentenced Wednesday to one year and 8 months in jail after being convicted of evading taxes on almost one billion euros.
We’ve been here before.
High-brow GIFs.
You can’t 3D print money, but Stratasys just did the next best thing in buying MakerBot, the one company with the potential to disrupt Stratasys’s 3D-printing business.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said today the bureau was surveilling the United States with drones.
Microsoft is set to announce it will remove DRM restrictions on Xbox One games and the need for you to have the new Xbox "always online."
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