A lot can change in a year. Not when you’re Equifax. The credit rating giant, one of the largest in the world, was trusted with some of the most sensitive data used by banks and financiers to determine who can be lent money.

Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine may have found one of the answers—mindfulness. "Mindfulness is related to being aware of the present moment without too much emotional reaction or judgment," said the study's lead author, Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the medical school, part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. "We now know that some people are more mindful than others, and those people seemingly feel less pain."

Some advice on bumper stickers and memes is just dangerous nonsense.

Millenia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise livestock. And unknowingly, they may have been fundamentally altering the climate of the Earth.

First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy.

Former President Obama tore into President Trump on Friday over what he said was his failure to stand up to Nazi sympathizers. 

The New York Times has reconstructed how the disaster happened, from beginning to end.

The results of our sand scavenger hunt are in!

Don't worry, killer robots only came up twice.

Do you have a million-dollar idea to help astronauts turn gas into sugar in space?

A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there.

Burt Reynolds dies, aged 82 - he starred in a string of hits in the 1970s, including Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance

It's a really important first step towards artificial general intelligence, algorithms that can do more than a single narrowly-defined task.

A judge gave the couple until Monday to hand over the re­main­ing funds. But a day af­ter the dead­line a lawyer said there's no mon­ey left to sur­ren­der.

Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai, the Donald Trump administration plant behind the repeal of net neutrality, is now very concerned about the neutrality of other tech companies.

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

Most of the extinctions were caused by deforestation in South America, a new study of endangered birds shows

Mercedes-Benz, the world’s largest maker of luxury cars, is rolling out its first in a series of battery-powered models, adding to a growing array of high-end brands targeting Tesla Inc.

A report attributed the killings to a “poaching frenzy”

Monday is the first day that French schoolchildren under 15 cannot use their cellphones at any point during the school day, thanks to a new nationwide law. The ban, passed in July following a campaign pledge made by French President Emmanuel Macron, will affect elementary and junior high schools across the country as they return from the summer break.

On Facebook, right-wing meme pages play a vital role in condensing and recycling far-right talking points and keeping the MAGA base engaged online.

The prime minister’s surprise decision in 2016 to scrap old paper currency did not deter criminals, who found ways to exchange the bills.

Where did all those angles come from?

Body mass index, or BMI, is currently the most widely used method for assessing whether someone is overweight or underweight. But now scientists think they've come up with a new and improved alternative: say hello to the relative fat mass index...

One of Latin America's largest natural history museums, in Rio de Janeiro, is hit by a huge blaze.

The Danish toymaker has relied on oil-based plastics for over 50 years. It wants to give them up by 2030. Finding alternatives is a vast project.

During the Cold War, Washington feared that Moscow was seeking to turn microwave radiation into covert weapons of mind control. More recently, the American military itself sought to develop microwave arms that could invisibly beam painfully loud booms and even spoken words into people’s heads. The aims were to disable attackers and wage psychological warfare.

Arthur C Clarke’s concept of a space elevator could start to be realised by experiments beginning next month by a Japanese university and construction comp.

While some teens spent the summer babysitting or working retail, thousands of others made big bucks on the social network.

On August 23, 2018 the identification and distribution of aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere is shown in this dramatic, planet-wide visualization. Produced in real time, the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model relies on a combination of Earth-observing satellite and ground-based data to calculate the presence of types of aerosols, tiny solid particles and liquid droplets, as they circulate above the entire planet. This August 23rd model shows black carbon particles in red from combustion processes, like smoke from the fires in the United States and Canada, spreading across large stretches of North America.