Openings for tech jobs regularly generate an overwhelming number of applications, partly because remote work is more common and AI tools are automating the process. That creates a significant burden on both hiring organizations and would-be employees ...

Treva Silverman, who wrote for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and other hits, is adored and admired by fellow comedy writers and actors alike.

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for becoming the first country in the world to be officially verified as having eliminated leprosy.

Under new repatriation rules, museums must gain consent from Native American tribes before displaying their cultural items. Some museums rushed to comply, but others, such as the Museum of Us and History Colorado, were prepared to meet the moment.

Some experts see Harris as emboldening technological innovation with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind.

After almost a full year of work,  young Slovakian designer Martin Vargic is introducing the brand new Map of the Internet, up to date for the year 2021. This fun and extensive project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the curren ...

Life when we had to color our food.

Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow buildings, often laid in parallel to other blackhouses, with dry-stone walls and thatched roofs rendered black ...

Through telehealth, it’s easier than ever to get prescription drugs online. Should regulators be paying more attention?

Radio stations as we know them would not exist, or be turning a profit, without the early days of AT&T and a ten-minute talk from the Queensboro Real Estate Company.

For as long as humankind has existed and suffered, we’ve also laughed.

1. Listen to the birds. That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from.

DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative will work to validate the progress of quantum computer hardware development.

Exclusive video footage of Steve Jobs talking about his design vision and philosophy and how design worked at Apple.

Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer. Along the way, he met an aspiring writer.

How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.

Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. …

A number of San Francisco couples have turned to tech tools to optimize their relationships. From marriage off-sites, to mental unloading apps, they’re making it work.