Salk Institute researchers have discovered an on/off switch mechanism of how immortal cells maintain their ability to divide and regenerate cell population. Our bodies are composed to various types of cells that are constantly dividing to replenishi ...

The next round of Microsoft layoffs is here. Microsoft is cutting another 2,100 positions on Thursday as part of a previously announced staff reduction plan. The layoffs were first reported by ZDNet and confirmed to Mashable by a source close to the ...

An international team of astronomers have announced that they’ve discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M60-UCD1. This is the smallest known galaxy to have a supermassive black hole.

Artificial sweeteners may exacerbate, rather than prevent, metabolic disorders such as Type 2 diabetes, a study suggests. Calorie-free artificial sweeteners are often chosen by dieters in part because they are thought not to raise blood sugar levels.

THAW is a novel interaction system that allows a collocated large display and small handheld devices to seamlessly work together. The smartphone acts both as a physical interface and as an additional graphics layer for near-surface interaction on a c ...

These people sure have a lot of questions for Alex Trebek, but he's on his game.

Autonomous vehicles will sport sophisticated sensors and radar systems to read and react to their surroundings, but their robotic drivers still will require vivid and current roadmaps to put the various inputs into context.

I grew up and raised my family in Newtown, Connecticut — and own guns. After 26 of my neighbors were massacred, I signed up to see how the organization that controls our gun debates works.

Twitter’s taps debt markets for the first time, raising expectations that it is amassing a war chest for acquisitions

The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country.

Restrictive copyright licenses and expensive submission fees have led to a significant number of scientists to criticise Science Advances, a new journal due to launch next year, for failing to live up to its open access principles.

The UK and US governments have criticised, in unusually strong language, Israel's decision to approve one of the largest appropriations of Palestinian land for settlement in recent decades. The UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said he deplo ...

When you think about your future multi-million dollar shipping moguls and up-and-coming diplomats, please remember a small handful of them probably received their Ivy League degrees thanks to me.

New genetic research on ancient bones reveals that a prehistoric population of hunters migrated into the high Arctic of North America and Greenland and survived for 4,000 years in almost complete isolation from the rest of humanity. Then, about 700 y ...

A study over decades of young Baltimoreans offers insight into who succeeds and why.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, an operation that turned the tide of the Second World War against the Nazis, marking the beginning of the end of the conflict. Today, as many around the world prepare to ...

London and Paris are great, but if you're on a budget, a trip to those sparkling cities might make you feel a bit, well, broke. Thankfully, affordable options are out there, and you'll probably never guess where you can go for a culture-fil ...

For millions of Americans a towed car can lead to a crippling spiral of stress, debt, joblessness, illness and, in many cases, incarceration.

The nine-note tune made famous in Carl Douglas' 1974 song has served as a stereotype of Asian music since the 19th century.