Female hormones may be partly responsible for the increasing obesity rate among men, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Adelaide believe that exposure to estrogen may be fueling the male obesity epidemic. Experts explain tha ...

For years, there have been plenty of conspiracy theories about the government building machines that control the weather, be it via cloud seeding or Nikola Tesla's weather weapon HAARP. Though it might sound like the type of exaggerated conversa ...

Richard Dawkins' implication that babies have a default theological position of atheism is as silly as assuming a default language or nationality

The timing of the giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a planet-sized body occurred around 40 million years after the start of solar system formation. This means that the final stage of Earth's formation is around 60 million years olde ...

Crumbling castles, haunted villages, and pickled kittens are hidden in the creepiest corners of the globe. Discover the eeriest spots on earth with 10 Creepy Abandoned Places.

Canada's government is introducing legislation that will make it legal to sell sex privately, but illegal to buy it. The law is similar to legislation in Sweden that was introduced in 1999, which prosecutes the client but views the prostitute as ...

CHINESE police have detained six people for beating to death a woman at a McDonalds restaurant who refused to disclose her phone number, accusing them of being members of a religious cult, state media says.

In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a bogus news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States, Israel, and other countries, a cyber intelligen ...

The man running the largest mental health institution in the United States is not a doctor. He did not major in psychiatry, nor did he spend his formative years studying bipolar disorder or working with schizophrenics.

Curved screen televisions are nothing more than a gimmick, and one that will quickly die off once users realize anyone watching from the periphery has a sub-par view, industry analysts said this week. "You see a whole load of pseudo-scientific c ...

Moe playing some Jenga.

The Department of Agriculture has warned of sticker shock facing home chefs on the eve of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the unofficial start of the U.S. summer grilling season. The agency said conditions in California could have "large and l ...

A classic nationalist frenzy is in progress in Southeast Asia. Chinese-owned factories are burning in Vietnam, and Chinese and Vietnamese warships are playing chicken with each other near island chains nobody ever wanted to inhabit.

Wi-Fi blankets our homes; speedy cell networks keep us connected everywhere else. Bluetooth Low Energy is poised to bring an unprecedented degree of locational awareness to our devices. Still, no single technology will be adequate for powering the wh ...

Student debt and the hiring of relatively low-paid adjunct faculty rather than full-time professors have grown fastest at public universities with the highest-paid presidents, a new report found.

An activist in Chile has burnt documents representing $500 million (£300 million) worth of student debt during a protest at Universidad del Mar. Francisco Tapia, who is also known as “Papas Fritas”, claimed that he had “freed” the students by setting ...

Brazil will not make good on its commitment to clean up Rio de Janeiro's sewage-filled Guanabara Bay by the 2016 Olympic Games, state environmental officials acknowledged in a letter obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.

Earlier this week, Europe’s highest court ruled that Google must delete some search results people deem embarrassing. The landmark decision introduced the world to the phrase “the right to be forgotten.” But should everyone have that right? A corrupt ...

Poor Johannes Kepler. One of the greatest astronomers ever, the man who figured out the laws of planetary motion, a genius, scholar and mathematician — in 1611, he needed a wife. The previous Mrs. Kepler had died of Hungarian spotted fever, so, with ...

Virtually every country on Earth will be able to build or acquire drones capable of firing missiles within the next ten years. Armed aerial drones will be used for targeted killings, terrorism and the government suppression of civil unrest. What’s wo ...