Alexander Grothendieck, whose gift for deep abstraction excavated new ground in the field known as algebraic geometry and supplied a theoretical foundation for the solving of some of the most vexing conundrums of modern mathematics, died on Thursday ...

The workplaces of Facebook, Twitter and Google may look whimsical. But each design is calculated to mirror its company’s values and culture.

When you think of the few “classic” cocktails that bartenders even know how to make anymore, none has a more storied past than the Bloody Mary, this year celebrating its 80th birthday. In fact, if it weren't for the 18th Amendment and the Russia ...

Upon seeing missed calls from unfamiliar numbers on our cell phones or home phones, we often instinctively call the number back to see who it was. According to a recent warning issued by the Better...

(Credit: Yue Zhang, Josh Silverstone, Damien Bonneau And Mark Thompson, Tom Wilson/Nature Photonics) Scientists and engineers from an international

What if I gave you a choice between doing the right thing, and doing the wrong thing. Which one would you choose?

At a briefing for investors and the media held on Thursday morning, Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata outlined the company’s plan to create a third platform to sit alongside its Wii U and Nintendo 3DS game machines. “What Nintendo will try to achieve in th ...

St. Petersburg, FL - University of South Florida researchers say they've located 55 bodies at the now-closed Dozier School for Boys in the Florida panhandle. That's 24 more than official records indicate.

Peter White has traveled the world helping countries dismantle their chemical weapons facilities. Until he visited Syria, however, he had never worked in a war zone. "There were a few sleepless nights in the first week, and we weren't reall ...

The 'polar vortex' and severe cold weather don't mean climate change isn't happening

Texas Gov. Rick Perry signaled Thursday that he's for the decriminalization of marijuana use — not legalization, but the softening of punishment for pot users in the border state. “As governor, I have begun to implement policies that start us to ...

The evidence that people are drawn to shiny things is all around us: from the pages of lifestyle magazines to the page stock of lifestyle magazines. One logical explanation for this cultural affection is that we've come to associate gloss with w ...

You often hear people say that the reason the United States doesn't have a single-payer health-care system is that special interests have a hammerlock on Congress. But in the course of reporting out my article on what liberals miss about single ...

A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it was working on a project using a scaled-down version of ...

There are many different rules when eating and drinking all around the world; some a necessity to learn like when the host becomes greatly insulted should you not adhere to protocol. So remember that global eating habits are something to be observed ...

Dolphins are thought of as one of the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom – and experts believe they have put their ingenuity to use in the pursuit of getting “high”. In extraordinary scenes filmed for a new documentary, young dolphins wer ...

Going through security in the 21st century is a pain. At airports, it means taking off your shoes and funneling shampoo into tiny bottles. At stadiums, it means letting a stranger with a little stick poke around your belongings and pat you down. But ...

North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) has deleted over 35,000 articles from its on-line archives. The deletion, the biggest ever article removal in KCNA’s history, means that with the exception of a small number of arti ...

In 1969, the third man to walk on the moon, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr., also became the first lunar archaeologist. As part of the Apollo 12 crew, he examined an earlier robotic lander, Surveyor 3, and retrieved its TV camera, aluminum tubing ...

No jobs, no hope - and surveillance cameras everywhere. The strange, sad story of Camden