Crime in schools has dropped sharply but New York still requires students at more than 200 schools to take off their shoes and send their belongings through x-ray machines.
Given the rate at which hoverboards are catching on fire these days, it's surprising that it's taken this long for it to happen during an unboxing video.
History is indescribably complex, and often we find ourselves oversimplifying just to make sense of it all. But mapping out who was alive when offers a better way of understanding the various competing influences during a given timeframe.
Few people can say they’ve never faked the flu to skip school or stay home from work. The people who play sick in Corinne May Botz’s fascinating series "Bedside Manner" do so for noble reasons: Helping medical students learn how to diagnose patients and hone their bedside manner.
Advocacy journalism is often about righting a specific wrong by exposing it to the public. Serial's first season was definitely that. Is season two serving its central character in the same way?
The continuing search for MH370 hasn’t provided the answers that investigators and grieving families were looking for, but it hasn’t been entirely fruitless, either.
Anesthesiologist Dr. Alan Walters was working at University Hospital in Augusta, GA when he noticed the bizarre clouds outside. So he filmed this quick timelapse with his phone while he put an epidural in a patient.
Deportations and violence have driven tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent from their homes in the Dominican Republic — while the world is silent.
There’s a moment you rarely catch famous people in — right after they blow up, but before they’re too big to remember what it’s like to be normal. It’s the morning
The respected astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss is claiming via Twitter that researchers have found gravitational waves. The report is still unconfirmed by anyone else, but that hasn't kept the Internet from freaking out.
On Wednesday, Khloé Kardashian gave her first in-depth interview since Lamar Odom's high-profile near-death experience at a brothel in Las Vegas. She talks candidly about his drug use, infidelity and the incident itself.
The action-camera maker said fourth-quarter revenue is forecast to be $435 million. That compares with the average analyst estimate of $510.9 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
As NASA works to complete the James Webb Space Telescope for launch in less than three years, it's also beginning work on the next major space observatory after it.
They work in neighboring shops that are mirror images of one another, one lit by a red neon, one by blue, sharing a name, a recipe and a colorful family history of perseverance through the hardships of Lebanon’s violent past.
Al Jazeera America will shutter its cable TV and digital operations by April 30 of this year, the company announced Wednesday. The decision by the AJAM board was “driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.”
SoundCloud has reached a multi-territory licensing deal with Universal Music Group and the Universal Music Publishing Group, leaving Sony as the only major music publisher not to sign a deal with the company.
Christian Ott, a young astrophysics professor at Caltech, engaged in “discriminatory and harassing” behavior toward two female graduate students, a university investigation has found.
We counted each word in last night’s speech, as well as each word in every State of the Union address ever given, to find the words that were used the most.
One kick was all it took to make Osama Mohsen, a professional soccer coach from Syria, into one of the most famous refugees to arrive in Europe last year. After a Hungarian camerawoman sent Mohsen tumbling, his life took an unexpected turn.
On Wednesday, PewDieDie made the announcement that he's been given the chance by Disney to run his own network that features YouTube creators. He says the content will mostly focus on gaming and pop culture.
In an unsuspecting building at Johnson Space Center, curators watch over meteorites from Mars and the asteroid belt, cosmic dust, samples of the solar wind, comet particles, and, of course, hundreds of kilograms of Moon rocks.
"Mein Kampf" is a miserable book — but should it be banned? I could certainly sympathize with any German who would like to see it kept illegitimate; some speech should, in fact, be off limits. But is it a dangerous book?