Many female workers were only allowed to leave their "hostels" for two hours a week.

How Africa Became Heavy Metal’s New Frontier

The director on what it's like to be unplugged from the internet and why he would make an excellent survivalist.

With a new solo art exhibition about mass surveillance, and a film about Julian Assange in the works, filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras is emerging, ever so carefully, into the spotlight.

Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to America’s foremost auteur about the principles powering his unique vision

The NEJM editorial staff have defended the status quo for both data-sharing policies and conflict-of-interest disclosures.  

With the ability to travel in time, a lonely girl finds love and comfort by connecting with her past self. Eventually faced with rejection she struggles with her identity and gender, and as time folds onto itself only one of them can remain. Director ...

The brains that come through Ann McKee’s lab don’t lie. But they are only the beginning of the story about head trauma and its role in neurodegenerative disease.

PC Music’s most normcore member, Danny L Harle, is fresh off a stellar debut EP, Broken Flowers, on the newly formed PC Music division of Columbia Records and has just debuted a new interview and mix for FADER.

So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.

The British public are generally proud of their country’s role in subjecting the world to colonialism and the British Empire, according to a new poll. At its height in 1922 the British Empire governed a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter o ...

'Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years.

Track Palin was arrested hours before his mother formally endorsed Donald Trump for president.

A Microsoft Research study uses augmented reality to project a life-size person into a room with you, perching them in an empty seat.

Southern California Gas Co. said Monday that it has abandoned a plan to capture and burn the leaking natural gas that has forced thousands of Porter Ranch residents to relocate, citing safety concerns.

From the new album ‘Art Angels’ out now

Where did modern electronic music come from? Whatever the genre markers—EDM, house, glitch, dubstep, ambient—any discussion of the history will inevitably pay homage to a few founding names: Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, synthesizer invento ...

Now imagine that you’re poor, and you have a decision in the morning about whether to take the bus or to have breakfast, and you have a decision to make in the day on whether to buy medications or put money aside for rent. Those decisions are incredi ...

Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New ...

Studies that play on our biologically-hardwired fears of contagion, contamination, and infection are hard to shake.