If you wanted a single article to demonstrate why millennials object to the prevailing “neoliberal” economic ideology, it would be this piece in Forbes: “Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money.” In it, economics professor Panos Mourdoukoutas argues that libraries have outlived their usefulness, and that their function should be privatized.

Context cards could help Facebook fight misinformation

Finding your everyday reason for living, or ikigai, could lead to a longer and better life.

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Research halted as 10 to 15 other participants wait to see if their children affected

Researchers believe they have found the first existing body of liquid water on the Red Planet.

For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud.

The Mediterranean country is now calling for international help battling the flames.

I spent three weeks studying FreeHacks, one of the dark web’s biggest platform for hackers. From passports to credit cards, nothing is safe.

How a piece of trash can travel from land to Henderson Island, an uninhabited, remote island in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

A group of researchers with the American Museum of Natural History said they discovered the largest dinosaur foot to date belonging to a brachiosaur in Wyoming.

President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, is closing down her fashion brand.

Lone star ticks hunt in packs and spread an allergy to beef and pork. Thanks to climate change, they’re spreading. By Zoya Teirstein.

President Trump on Tuesday said he is "very concerned" that Russia will attempt to interfere in this year's midterm elections, claiming Moscow "will be pushing very hard" to support Democrats.

Long before Aladdin Sane or Ziggy Stardust, a skinny 16-year-old with ambitions to be a saxophonist agreed to do lead vocals on a demo track, in a small studio in south London. Now the only known recording of the resulting session, with David Bowie singing I Never Dreamed with his first band, The Konrads, has resurfaced in an old bread basket, and is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction.

African intellectuals tend to blame the West for the slave trade, but I knew that white traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy.

Thousands of German scientists — many using public funds — have published their results in quasi-scientific journals without being peer reviewed, according to a report

What happened to U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is more shocking than anyone knew.

SHRIMP is a new DARPA program to develop insect-scale robots for disaster recovery and high-risk environments

The next time you use Uber, check your bill. The trip could turn out to be very expensive, not just for the distance but for a type of fraud that is on the increase.

The offline population is bigger than you think it is — and most are getting along just fine without the web

Games developers are removing data collecting software created by Red Shell after sleuthing players discovered it was recording their information

An analysis of nearly 500,000 running times estimates the effect of shoes on race performance.

To fight a rising tide of depression and suicide, psychiatrists need to do more than just fill patients up with pills writes James S Gordon, a psychiatrist

In a week even Hollywood couldn't have scripted, the feds launch their case against a Russian accused of infiltrating U.S. politics. And the deputy attorney general speaks out on foreign interference.

Will journalists, due to hatred of Assange, unite behind the Trump DOJ in support of one of the gravest threats to press freedom in years?

The $20 million Lunar X Prize was supposed to send startups into space. The cost turned out to be far higher than the reward—but the competitors were never really in it for the trophy.

The F.B.I. seized the recording in a raid. Its existence recording highlights the potential legal and political danger that Mr. Cohen represents to the president.

This summer, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to within four inches of the solar surface.