Although Japan is renowned for having some of the best customer service on the planet, for various reasons, including language and cultural hurdles, it isn't known as the most tourist-friendly destination. Some of those hurdles also extend into ...

The genetic code is the biochemical basis of life, and given its central importance, there are rules. Double-stranded DNA is transcribed to single-stranded RNA, which is processed through protein-building ribosomes. Each set of three nucleotide bas ...

A mining tycoon with ties to Zhou Yongkang, China’s former security chief, was sentenced to death on Friday for organised crime, in one of the few criminal trials to date that appear linked to a political purge. Liu Han’s trial in central China inclu ...

The first target stumbled through the Hornstull metro station here with her nose in her purse, too harried to notice the man sidling up behind her. She swiped her fare card. A pair of barriers slid apart, and before they could close, two train rides ...

Ask any smoker: quitting is hard. Cigarettes become a part of your daily life, a habit that's not only hard to break, but hard to keep track of. "Tracking is one of the most important factors in one's health," Ata Ghofrani told us ...

New advances in changing memories show the field could hold great promise for both therapy and theory of memory

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Russia has withdrawn its forces from its border with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, but NATO and Pentagon officials said they had no indication Russia has done anything of the sort. “We’re always being told that our forces on th ...

The world’s first trillionaire could emerge within just 25 years, financial forecasters have claimed. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and world's richest person, is expected by many to be the first to reach trillionaire status.

The White House has asked legislators crafting competing reforms of the National Security Agency to provide legal immunity for telecommunications firms that provide the government with customer data, the Guardian has learned.

An important piece of American literary history, and one of the few missing selections in digital libraries, is finally becoming an e-book. On her 88th birthday, Harper Lee agreed to let her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird be relea ...

The belle of the ball wore a pink feather boa and held a glass of champagne at a party earlier this week, never mind the fact that she was dead. Mickey Easterling, a New Orleans socialite who passed away at the age of 83, was feted one last time at a ...

We should demand the truth about the death of Pat Tillman.

In an April marked by angry eclipses portending unexpected change, the ancient, long-debunked practice of astrology and its preeminent ambassador might be weirdly suited for the 21st century.

Space elevators, teleportation, hoverboards, and driverless cars: The top-secret Google X innovation lab opens up about what it does--and how it thinks.

The Iranian regime is slated to hang on Tuesday a 26-year-old woman charged with fatally stabbing her accused rapist, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Rayhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year-old former interior designer, is scheduled to be hanged this wee ...

The fewer babies Americans give birth to, the more small dogs they seem to buy. Birth rates in the US have fallen from nearly 70 per 1,000 women in 2007, to under 63 last year—a 10% tumble. American women birthed almost 400,000 fewer little humans in ...

Between sketchy Whatsapp messages and mysteriously moved household items, the prosecution won’t rest until even the little things make a big difference.

If Facebook and privacy had a relationship status, it might be "It's complicated." More or less every day, the company gets bombarded with user feedback demanding more privacy settings and greater choice in determining what other peopl ...

Microsoft has unveiled a virtual assistant for Windows Phone handsets. The voice-controlled app, named Cortana, uses both the firm's search engine Bing and data stored on the handsets to make personalised recommendations and carry out tasks.