On the north coast of British Columbia in Canada, where the Alaskan border is closer than the nearest town, lies a mysterious hidden place, accessible only by a long arduous gravel road behind a locked gate.

In the late 1980s Patrick Seale wrote an excellent account of the al-Assad family—well before it was clear that Bashar, its bookish, quiet, second-oldest son, would one day lead the Syrian government in massacring its own people. At the time, his old ...

Researchers have been kicking around the idea of a cranial porthole for years – a skylight for your skull that doctors could peer through to monitor brain cancer, or treat neurological disorders. But glass is too fragile, and traditional skull implan ...

Nearly 24 million Americans, about 9.2% of the population, use illicit drugs, and marijuana use is steadily increasing.

You see their names on the labels of your favorite suds, but how well do you really know the beer barons who brought you the frosty refreshment in your glass? As you might expect, a number of the American brewing industry's pioneers led fairly c ...

While most relationships have their share of ups and downs, very few couples are willing or able to invest the time and/or money that traditional relationship therapy would cost.

Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery were the first actors to play Batman on the big screen, in two 15-part serials. Lewis came first, in 1943, in a series that invented what was then called The Bat's Cave. Produced during World War II, its anti-Japan ...

Two women from the UK charged with drug smuggling in Peru have been remanded in custody after appearing in court.

Al Jazeera is launching a new TV news channel in the United States. Al Jazeera America will be available in almost 48 million US households, offering 14 hours of news each day.

As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome?

This week in Tech we took a look at the Hyperloop, new TVs, iPhone rumors and more. Here's what you need to know about the week in Tech

NASA's long-lived Voyager probe crossed into interstellar space last year, becoming the first man-made object to leave the solar system, new research shows.

On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.

A scary situation for a group of hikers in Yellowstone National Park on Thursday. According to a news release from Yellowstone, two hikers were injured in a bear attack on Thursday morning.

The phrase "pinup girl" often conjures up images of hourglass figures and vintage fashion. But how often are the pin-ups we see actually plus-size women?

Cyber criminals will bank their Windows XP zero-day vulnerabilities until after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April, a security expert argued today.

Australia is going to the polls on September 7 for Parliamentary elections, and the expectation is that the current Labour government lead by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will go down for defeat.

Limited and "special" edition video games have long been a popular way to pump more money out of fans, but developer Deep Silver is now taking that concept to its ludicrous extreme.

James Dolan says the cable industry is living in a "bubble" and talks about his young children's Netflix habits.

Researchers from the University of Zurich, have created neuromorphic chips that can mimic the way a human brain will process information in real-time. With the assistance of an artificial sensory processing system, these chips are able to display cog ...