Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are concerned about joining them.

Google now auto-deletes data, but only for some users, and only after a year and a half. You can do better.

Even before the COVID pandemic, many experts posited that loneliness was itself an American epidemic. Now, many fear the reduction in social contact may especially affect those populations most vulnerable to isolation and loneliness. Now, emerging research explores the manner in which the brain maps relationships with other people in relation to one’s self.

It comes in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order targeting social media sites.

Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km. SolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour. The close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.

When Dr. Anthony Fauci said in late May that there’s a “good chance” a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready by the end of this year, Steve Roth badly wanted to believe him. Roth, a 74-year-old New Yorker who endured fever, pneumonia and anxiety while fighting the virus, wants life to go back to normal as much as anyone. And he respects Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ”an awful lot,” he says. But he just doesn’t think Fauci’s ...

President Trump tweeted a letter written to him from Carlo Maria Viganò, a Catholic archbishop, who suggests the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd protests are part of a 'deep state' plot to hurt the president's re-election. In the long-winded letter, Viganò describes the current climate as a battle against good and evil and says Trump's participation in the anti-abortion 'March for Life' 'confirm[s] which side you wish to fight on.'

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s ailing health condition has led him to miss a hearing at a UK court this week, raising further concerns about the state of his health and strengthening calls for him to be released.

Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong waved the Stars and Stripes and called on Donald Trump to “liberate” the Chinese-ruled city. Riot police stood by as protesters sang the Star Spangled Banner and waved placards appealing for democracy after another night of violence in the 14th week of unrest. “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong,” they shouted before handing over petitions at the US Consulate. “Resist Beijing, liberate Hong Kong.”

The behind-the-scenes world of creating TV shows can occasionally be merciless, and plenty of people who later got famous may have initially had a rough start in tinseltown. Michael Bublé recently revealed a hilarious story.

Before there were animals, bacteria or even DNA on Earth, self-replicating molecules were slowly evolving their way from simple matter to life beneath a constant shower of energetic particles from space. In a new paper, a Stanford professor and a former post-doctoral scholar speculate that this interaction between ancient proto-organisms and cosmic rays may be responsible for a crucial structural preference, called chirality, in biological molecules. If their idea is correct, it suggests that al...

Front Page Tech host and leaker Jon Prosser today shared several alleged details about Apple's rumored augmented reality glasses

Regina Brave remembers the moment the first viral picture of her was taken. It was 1973, and 32-year-old Brave had taken up arms in a standoff between federal marshals and militant Indigenous activists in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Brave had been assigned to guard a bunker on the front lines and was holding a rifle when a reporter leaped from a car to snap her photo.

Raphael Auer is Principal Economist in the Innovation and Digital Economy unit at the, Bank for International Settlements (BIS). His research focuses on issues related to cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currency. The views expressed here are his and do not necessarily reflect those of the BIS.