Two biotechnology behemoths have followed through with vows to sue Hawaii’s Maui County for passing a law last week that bans the cultivation of genetically modified organisms.

Porn stars and studios have called on Google to help publicise legal ways to buy adult content in an effort to combat piracy. Prominent industry figures said they deserved the same measures as those recently introduced to publicise legitimate music a ...

She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore. "It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street," she says. "I tho ...

There is always an urge to bomb, as a classic study, Sven Lindqvist’s A History of Bombing, makes clear. That is why the history of the 20th century—the most violent ever— was and is being written in bombs, blood and finally bafflement that bombs did ...

The theft of endangered and rare flowers has led botanical gardens to go to extreme measures to protect their plants, locking them down with cables and installing CCTV. But is this enough to preserve such species?

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has warned about artificial intelligence before, tweeting that it could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking Friday at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department’s Centennial Symposium, Musk called it ...

Bill Murray on Tinder

U.S. retail sales were disappointing in September, worrying analysts that consumers may be feeling stretched or cautious as the biggest shopping season of the year rolls around. Some retailers make up as much as 30 percent of their yearly sales numbe ...

The man with the hat is back. And this time, he's quite short.

September the 20th marked the launch of Open Russia, a pro-European political movement spearheaded by former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia’s former wealthiest man was released from prison in December 2013 due to a pardon by Vladimir ...

Apple's counting on the $249 iPad Mini to draw you into its stores. But it's hoping you end up buying a $499 iPad Air instead.

Fruits and vegetables have changed a lot since the onset of agriculture 10,000 years ago, as generation after generation of farmers artificially bred crops to select for more desirable traits like size and taste.

Oslo pulled out of the bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, much to the dismay of the International Olympic Committee, leaving Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan, as the only potential host cities still in the running. Public support for hosting the Oly ...

Franklin Foer has an interesting new essay at New Republic arguing that Amazon is a monopoly trampling the public good and necessitating a vigorous public response, à la Ma Bell or U.S. Steel before it. There’s just one problem with his argument: Ama ...

A terribly embarrassed Taliban spokesman is on the hunt for a new hiding spot after accidentally revealing his location in a series of geo-tagged tweets last week. Zabiullah Mujahid apparently forgot to disable the location identification system auto ...

As bombs start dropping in Syria and Iraq, the world is once again being asked to cower in fear of a shadowy terror group that most people hadn't heard of just a few months ago. But even the most cursory examination of ISIS's past, its conn ...

North Korea's presumptive No. 2 led members of Pyongyang's inner circle in a rare trip Saturday to South Korea for the close of the Asian Games, with the rivals holding their highest level face-to-face talks in five years.

In September, Matt Kuleza started a life changing personal mission to bring back a different component of social media. The Melbourne, Australia 28-year-old student and digital strategist was going through his Facebook friends list, ready to delete a ...

Prosthetic limbs have been around for decades, but new type of prosthetic hand called 'Michelangelo' could be the best ever. WJAR's R.J. Heim reports.

The first of a series of security powers requested by Australia's government to combat Islamist militants passed through parliament on Wednesday, despite criticism that they could land journalists in jail for reporting on national security.