Saudi officials initially claimed that the journalist, who had been missing since Oct. 2, left their consulate in Istanbul alive.

For the first time, researchers have discovered that birds can sleep in flight.

You can painstakingly show somebody tons of bulletproof evidence and present flawless logical arguments but often they still won’t change their mind. What gives? The problem is that the human brain is not a purely rational computer. And when we ignore that, even the best of efforts to convince others can fall flat.

Bill Gates shares his plan for fighting climate change.

A Carnegie Mellon startup aims to manage traffic at intersections by harnessing the radios in tomorrow’s cars

Hannah Jenkins survived a cycling accident - but woke up no longer being able to understand English.

Everyone bought into the fable that users actually wanted more video.

Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture.

Slavery still exists and it happens in plain sight.

A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code

The last thing you want to experience during an evening out is a scam. Knowing these sneaky tricks is a step closer to saving cash and feeling good about what you're eating. Here are some sneaky ways restaurants commonly scam their customers...

EBay says Amazon employees used the auction site's messaging service to poach top sellers.

Mr. Spinney’s remarkable run as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, two of the most beloved characters on television, will end this week.

A new study looked at sea, rock, and lake salt sold around the world. Here’s what you need to know.

You can listen to the MP3s you may have at home, but also to the cloud, to podcasts…

New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system

The publisher of video game Grand Theft Auto V has been granted the right to search the homes of five people accused of making cheat software. The court order allowed Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, to search two properties in Melbourne, Australia, for evidence related to a cheat known as Infamous.

Despite progress in reducing extreme poverty, nearly half the world's population lives on less than $5.50 a day, with a rising share of the poor in wealthier economies, the World Bank said Wednesday. In a twice-yearly report, the bank took a broader look at poverty to see where countries were lagging, even though the share of those living in extreme poverty—defined as earning less than $1.90 a day—has continued to come down in recent years.

Jupiter looks a bit different in ultraviolet light. To better interpret Jupiter's cloud motions and to help NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft understand the planetary context of the small fields that it sees, the Hubble Space Telescope is being directed to regularly image the entire Jovian giant. The colors of Jupiter being monitored go beyond the normal human visual range to include both ultraviolet and infrared light.

The long read: Beekeepers are sounding the alarm about the latest developments in genetically modified pollinators

Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either.

Ecuador has partly restored Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world from its London embassy where the WikiLeaks founder has been living for over six years, according to reports. The Ecuadorian government suspended access in March because it said Assange had breached “a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states”.

After touting his space tourism mission (now set for 2019), Jeff Bezos also weighed in on the current state of social media and the internet in general on Monday. "I think the Internet in its current incarnation is a confirmation bias machine," he said.

Hints at potential treatments for age-related dementia and memory loss

President Trump on Monday denied that he offered Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) $1 million to take a test proving her Native American heritage, even though he did just that.  

Mr. Allen and Bill Gates started the company in 1975, helping to usher in the personal computing revolution. He died after a recurrence of cancer.

Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper has been released, and deals with one of the central topics in the physicist's 56-year-long career.

The platform has cast itself as the internet’s kindest place. But users argue harassment is rampant, and employees say efforts to stem it are under-resourced and deprioritized.

The privacy tool used by millions of people doesn’t actually protect your privacy.