When Island Nations Drown, Who Owns Their Seas?
As climate change jeopardizes the huge ocean claims of tiny nations, experts propose some bold legal solutions.
As climate change jeopardizes the huge ocean claims of tiny nations, experts propose some bold legal solutions.
In an excerpt from his new book, "The Innovators," Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia that has proven its detractors wrong time and again.
Did you know that Chinese consumers eat more meat, by calories, than Americans? Break down how nations chow down.
Follow along from Ben Hemingway's point of view as he goes head-to-head with Andreas Lettenbichler for the city portion of Extreme XL de Lagares, the hard enduro race through the city of Portugal.
Mark Zuckerberg. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Most of the big names in technology are men. But a lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged.
You know how they say don't shop when you're hungry? You probably shouldn't do it while you're stoned either. Additionally, we're pleasantly surprised with BuzzFeed's foray into sketch comedy.
Virginia police said human remains have been found during the search for Hannah Graham, the University of Virginia student who has been missing for more than a month.
A duplex in Fresno caught fire on Saturday morning trapping a man inside. Watch as one man decided take action and run into the blaze.
The cruise ship carrying a Dallas hospital worker who had contact with lab samples of a man infected with Ebola docked in Galveston early this morning after a helicopter retrieved a blood sample from the woman Saturday.
America is the land of opportunity, just for some more than others.
Scottish soccer players Jim McAlister and Gary Harkins took a book out of wrestler Randy Orton's handbook when they celebrated a win the other night.
Nice job Phillips, this is a good ad. Can we get some historians in here to fact check some costumes and props?
From hypodermic needles to hallway ghosts, plus-size models to rockstar hopefuls, every room and resident in one Tinseltown tenement is almost famous.
North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire Sunday in the latest in a series of minor border skirmishes that have raised military tensions on the divided peninsula.
The Scrabble dictionary is getting an update. But it’s not going so well, and the world’s best players aren’t happy.
One writer waited five months for Soylent. Now she can't get rid of it.
Researchers find this sheet — a single molecule thick — produces electricity when flexed.
Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri.
Nearly 1 million fewer people live in Manhattan now than a century ago. One reason: It got richer.
Two women narrate their ordeals. “You will hear of a wife murdered before you hear another one come forward.”
Your genome is the same right now as it was yesterday, last week, last year, or the day you were born. But your microbiomes — the combined genes of all the trillions of microbes that share your body — have shifted since the sun came up this morning. And they will change again before the next sunrise.
On any given day, 49 percent of U.S. adults will eat at least one sandwich. So what do they get on it?
The legendary comics author Alan Moore has written a million-word novel, a tribute to every eternal speck in his universe.
Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State In Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air.
Have you ever needed to know what a toilet on the second floor of Macy's looks like? Or maybe you're looking for a vintage 1986 hotel lobby? Either way, 88ToiletMan has got what you need.
What Figure 1 does is take conversations that doctors or students might have had in private — over email, over coffee, at the golf course, after class — and puts them in a semi-public place. They are therefore conducted with professional familiarity verging on casualness. They read like I imagine actual doctors talk, when they're looking at something weird or novel or horrible or confounding or even funny.
Facebook wants assurances from the Drug Enforcement Administration that it's not operating any more fake profile pages as part of ongoing investigations.
Time and Oak is a Portland-based startup with a fanciful idea. Their one and only product is a stick. Not just any stick but a laser-etched hunk of charred wood with maximal surface area that, when added to any whiskey, is supposed to enhance its flavor.
Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families.
One dozen eggs, ten cooked, two uncooked. Fallon and Cooper face-off to see who gets egg on their face.
The police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., two months ago has told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle and in fear for his life as he struggled over his gun with Mr. Brown, according to government officials briefed on the federal civil rights investigation into the matter.
When a bad review of her first novel appeared online, Kathleen Hale was warned not to respond. But she soon found herself wading in .
A rescue helicopter spotted nine more bodies Saturday on a trekking trail in northern Nepal, bringing the death toll to 38 from this week’s series of snow storms and avalanches in the worst hiking disaster in the Himalayan nation.
"While it’s easy to dismiss coding as rote exercise — a matter of following rules — it’s worth remembering that natural language is subject to rules of its own: grammar, syntax, spelling. [...] With that in mind, I wanted to apply the quirks and transgressions of the great authors to JavaScript, to see where that pushed the language."
At Buddy’s, a used 32-gigabyte, early model iPad costs $1,439.28, paid over 72 weeks. An Acer laptop: $1,943.28, in 72 weekly installments. A Maytag washer and dryer: $1,999 over 100 weeks.
Britain’s 500-year-old postal service, privatized a year ago, is under threat as letters dwindle and Internet-shopping delivery becomes the new battleground.
It has been rumored that new release "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" will feature a female Robin. The role has reportedly been filled by Hunger Games actress Jena Malone and was first reported by Michigan television station WILX 10, which was advised by a source on condition of anonymity.
Resembling a small space shuttle, the X-37B landed in southern California after a 674 days in orbit on a classified mission.
When Stacy Rybchin — founder of a small, New York-based sex-toy startup — tried to sign up for online payment services with Stripe in August, she was turned away.
This is one of those things that seems so obvious, and yet if it were actually as intuitive as it feels, why the heck haven't we been doing it our whole lives?