If the printed word becomes a thing of the past, it may affect how we think.

Gery Shalon -- a 31-year-old from the Republic of Georgia lies at the head of a global, digital crime syndicate.

In an era where nomadic lifestyles are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, the lives of the Awá Indians are hanging by a thread. Despite their efforts to keep moving, they face the encroachment of the modern world at every turn.

Four dead, an ever-expanding list of suspects, dozens of detectives on the case. Three years after the fact, a mysterious shooting in the French Alps has evolved into one of the most confounding, globe-spanning criminal investigations in decades

Amazon has released a service in Seattle that pays you to deliver packages.

When Ashraf Marwan fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat, he took his secrets with him. Was he working for Egypt or Israel? And did the revelation of his identity lead to his murder?

A trial of shorter days for nurses at a Gothenburg care home is inspiring others across Scandinavia to cut back, but the cost of improving staff wellbeing is high

A visualization of how people are dying in Syria.

Love, Online Dating, Modern Romance, and the Internet

San Diego police believe DNA evidence has finally enabled them to solve the case of a 14-year-old girl who was gruesomely murdered in 1984. But what if the evidence is wrong?

History is full of sorrowful knights, sobbing monks and weeping lovers – what happened to the noble art of the manly cry?

Founder of Kryptnostic, Matthew Tamayo-Rios. He claims to have created the first practical application for fully homomorphic encryption, a “holy grail” for securing data.

A short documentary on the importance of re-entry programs for the formerly incarcerated

As more companies and services use data to target individuals, those analytics could inadvertently amplify bias.

One in 50 of us are victims, left feeling like robots – and yet even doctors have to Google it. Now one sufferer is intent on helping millions out of their torment

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.

After years of prison and addiction, my brother went silent. So I visited his rehab.

One morning, a man discovered his double staring him in the eyes. Anil Ananthaswamy explores a dangerous hallucination that reveals how the brain constructs our sense of self.

Among the women paying $1,000 for a massage and the men lounging in $100m homes in the billionaires’ playground of the Hamptons is a largely unseen, mostly Latino, workforce toiling all summer in order to survive the winter

Reddit, one of the most popular destinations on the Internet, has been added to Russia's list of banned websites. The Federal Drug Control Service decided to block the site after discovering what it says is content promoting the use of illegal d ...