People who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent, studies show.

The world needs to prepare for a surge in refugees with potentially millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday.

One in six women suffer post-traumatic stress for months after losing a baby, research suggests.

Self-compassion might help temper the link between psychological distress and suicide risk among U.S. military veterans

Rent control is back in style. Despite real-world failed examples and bipartisan criticism from economists, it’s being revived in places and by people who thrive on emotion-based politics. New York, California and Oregon have all passed recent bills imposing some variation of rent control on housing statewide. Even some national politicians have called for it, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said it should be universal.

Nintendo and Playstation in one console? The collaboration between the two video game giants almost happened and the prototype of the "Nintendo Playstation" is now going up for auction this March.

And the Bay Area’s ten largest cities combined sport three empty homes for every two persons without one.

Fires in the country have burned more than 8 million hectares and killed at least 24 people.

More than 50 organisations have asked Google to take action against Android vendors who pre-install "exploitative" apps aka bloatware on their devices. In an open letter submitted to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the group of organisations that include search engine company and Google rival DuckDuckGo and nonprofit organisation The Tor Project have shown their concerns over vulnerabilities that users face due to pre-installed apps that cannot be deleted and collect, share, and expose their...

For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.

Scientists generally agree that the best strategy for finding extraterrestrial life is to look for a world that has conditions similar to Earth’s, including atmospheric oxygen that could be produced by organisms running photosynthesis. But current instruments used to study potentially habitable exoplanets are woefully ill equipped to find such biosignatures.

When college students post about feelings of depression on Facebook, their friends are unlikely to encourage them to seek help, a small study suggests. In fact, in this study, none of the 33 participating students said their friends told them they should reach out to a mental health professional to discuss their problems.

Suicide is now their second-leading cause of death.

Alex Trebek said that he will take 30 seconds at the end of the show to say his goodbyes, and he even revealed the speech he has rehearsed in his head.

Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.

The key to success is to have both a TV show and a deep, deep sale.

As a child I always dreamed of owning a lightsaber after watching Star Wars. My softball bat, a tube of cardboard, anything I could really get my hands on. I was a brave Jedi sworn to defend the galaxy from the evil empire! My huge front lawn was my area to defend. But even as an adult I still want a lightsaber. They still look amazing and I would give an arm and a leg to have one (get it?).

On Dec. 26, Sony was approved for a patent on a new type of PlayStation controller. The patent is on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) database, but it isn’t quite clear what Sony intends to do with the controller. The design itself is similar to the familiar DualShock 4 design that most players are used to with the PlayStation 4. The new controller has the same layout for its face buttons, directional pad, and analog sticks. The only real departure on the front of the contro...

Wausau has voted to amend a 1962 ordinance that forbids the launching of projectiles – including snowballs – on city property

ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.

Can free schools solve the problem of "futoko", Japan's phenomenon of refusing to attend school?