Tenure provides job security and protects the academic freedom of experienced professors. Firing a tenured professor is almost unheard of.

If you've spent any time on Facebook in the past day or so, you may be wondering: What's up with all the giraffes? It's a riddle.

The days of grabbing the same Chewbacca costume each Halloween are over. These days dressing up like an internet meme is the way to go.

Bitstrips are ruining Facebook, but you don't have to let them.

If you're trying to break into a Windows computer—whether you've forgotten your password or are hatching a more sinister plan—you have quite a few options. Here's how to do it, and how to keep your own computer protected.

Gamers are the New Athletes

Exposure to poverty in early childhood was associated with smaller brain structures later in life, but nurturing seemed to offset poverty's negative effect, researchers found.

A look at the blunders that businesses make with their brands when failing to take language/translation into account.

Sex Change Operations, Swimming Pools, Clarinet Lessons, and More.

Large breakthrough international study pooling data from over 74,000 people identifies 11 previously unknown susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease, bringing the total to 21.

How does it effect our education system?

Rock pioneer and Velvet Underground frontman Lou Dead is dead at 71.

An infographic about domestic violence in the U.S.

Get ready for some heavy stuff. With almost 50 accounts, 1208 tweets, and countless hashtags and Twitpics, someone on Twitter is reenacting Back to the Future in real time.Yes, we're serious -- and yes, the DeLorean has an account. Created by Ga ...

Inside the high-tech criminal mind. It's no secret that cybercriminals are stealing personal information and credit card numbers by hacking into corporate and government computers. One school in Pittsburgh is training the next generation of cybe ...

A look at five of the most innovative non-profits revitalizing philanthropy today.

The Dangerous Impact of Food Coloring

Keenan Draughon was arrested trying to board a flight to Charlotte, N.C., after Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police found the weapons

Mozilla has released a tool that will allow users of the Firefox browser to know which companies are tracking them online.

A photograph allows the viewer to drink in the details of a frozen moment, but for anything longer than an instant it must resort to blurry streaks or switch to video (and rarely anything in between). Photographer Fong Qi Wei’s photo series, Time Is ...