Once reserved for the children of ex-pats and diplomats, today, around 4.5 million students attend these institutions around the world.

A team of researchers says the Milky Way resides in one of the observable universe’s darkest regions, but some experts aren't so sure

Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.

The composer has long been seen as a symbol of divine order. But his music has an unruly obsession with God.

Science can’t prove it and the industry denies it, but Gary Taubes is convinced that the sweet stuff kills.

The joy of cooking in miniature

K-Cups are accumulating in landfills at alarming rates.

The American military’s increasing use of drone strikes is a radically new and geographically unbounded use of state-sanctioned lethal force. What are we risking?

Fiction: “The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”

The last frontier for digital ads? Inside your text messages. And one company hopes that if they offer you cute branded emoji you'll do the advertising yourself.

Decades of mismanagement have landed the government with a toxic, and expensive, problem.

A Madrid workshop is perfecting the art of facsimile—from Egyptian tombs to Renaissance paintings. Is replication the future of preservation?

Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage laborers soak up the worst of humanity, and keep it off your Facebook feed.

Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years listening to what people who feel forgotten have to say.

New rooting technique is believed to work against every version.

I can’t escape the conviction that writing it and knowing how to read it represent a universal value. This is sheer nonsense, of course.

A debate in the wake of the latest U.S. congressional vote on women joining Selective Service.

As the year ends, look back at some of the most iconic moments of 2015.

Spirituality seems to drive many ultramarathon runners. But, in a broad sense, they could be hungry for meaning, in general.

The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.