The Present

The findings are based on a phenomenon known as the “Mighty Girl Effect.”

When it comes to the workplace, more diversity means more money.

The rocket reached an altitude of 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration’s definition of space.

The potential of blockchain might have been ruined for you by your unemployed cousin who wears Balenciagas to Thanksgiving dinner and told you to enter into the cryptocurrency market at […]

Whether or not there are tropical islands in 50 years might depend on whether or not we can eat fewer hamburgers.

Eboo Patel explains how America’s political philosophy broke the democratic mold.

“Didn’t you see me Googling ‘baby not moving?'” Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.

One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.

Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear

What can America learn from this?

That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.

Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.

Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is “an assault on the values of the United Nations.”

China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.

How to talk to kids responsibly about drugs.

There are two main types of sexual fantasies. One, however, is more destructive than the other.

Just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean that it isn’t true for someone else.

Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?

Here’s why financial independence doesn’t mean free time forever.

Walgreens now competes with Amazon and CVS in the race to dominate the prescription delivery market.

Towards the end of his life, Francisco Goya began painting terrifying scenes directly onto the walls of his house.

Russia has launched several so-called “inspector satellites” that could potentially be weaponized.

Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.

Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.

A study out of Finland shows us that sex is sex and robots are robots, and the overlap is confusing.

Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.

Drug use and arrests are rising overall, but those changes vary depending on the state.

The controversial scientist He Jiankui is currently missing after causing major controversy in late November.