Lizard study supports Darwin's hunch that lack of predators leads to unwatchful behaviour.

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $1.7 billion to the victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. Authorities said the banking giant admitted in a settlement unveiled Tuesday that it didn’t have an effective money-laundering program and didn’t f ...

PW takes a look back at 10 big library stories of 2013, and a look ahead to what might be on the horizon in 2014.

Children as young as 11 are being used as mules to carry drugs on trains out of London by criminal gangs seeking to expand drug markets into the surrounding towns and countryside, leading officers from police forces in London and the south-east have ...

The Guardian recently published an amusing compilation of science jokes solicited from a variety of scientists. Besides making us chuckle, these discipline-based jokes illustrate something interesting about the psychology of humor.

One of the earliest leaked, newsworthy cell phone recordings to go viral was of the December 30, 2006 execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. It revealed the potential of mobile phone recordings to undermine the official telling of news ev ...

This Dog Was About To Die. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.

If you’ve ever endured a red-eye flight nestled in between a pair of big-elbowed regional sales managers, dodging Sbarro-infused belches, and jostling for a few millimeters of armrest, then you’ve wondered to yourself: Can’t anything be done about ai ...

IFHT, the makers of the hilarious How to be a Vancouverite video have teamed up with local startup Hockey Community and released a new video, How to be a Hockey Player.

Technology is being used in a building in Mexico City that transforms pollutants into harmless chemicals. The structure is made out of titanium dioxide, which its designers claim produces water and carbon dioxide from the city's smog.

Get ready, because after seeing NASA's top photos from space in 2013, your holiday snaps aren't going to seem anywhere near as impressive.

Peru has initiated a program that will provide more than 2 million of its poorest residents with electricity -- for free.

Smartphones are unquestionably one of the most useful devices of the 21st century but they continue to have one critical flaw - battery life. We've all been there - you forgot to charge your smartphone and you have 10% battery life left to see y ...

Sega's final console, Sony and Microsoft throw their hats in the ring, Nintendo's hits and misses. All that and more in part two of our continuing history of video game consoles.

A Russian investigation into the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found no trace of radioactive poisoning, the chief of the government agency that conducted the study said on Thursday.

America loves speed. The 1960s and 1970s might have produced the wildest and rarest muscle cars packing giant torque-rich V-8s, but the 1980s brought its share of powerful machines to the street, too—cars that were quick and met the more stringent em ...

How Utah became America’s gun permit mill—and other surprising, terrifying absurdities from the fight over firearms

From the foretelling of home computers to a 1970s prophecy of the Internet, these particular predictions from the past were spot-on.

Jacob Appelbaum, a US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told a Berlin paper that his apartment was broken into, saying he suspected US involvement.

The U.S. Department of Justice has released a new 191-page filing in which Megaupload is portrayed as a massive piracy hub. The Government is using data obtained from Megaupload’s seized databases to back up and expand several of the allegations agai ...