"Cold War hysteria reached its peak" in the autumn of 1983 with a NATO nuclear-release exercise named Able Archer 83 according to a set of newly declassified documents.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than half of all public pools had tested positive for E. coli, the bacteria most commonly associated with fecal matter.
Animals that can fly really have it good. Flight allows for quick getaways, aerial view hunting, expanded territorial ranges, and the ability to travel vast distances when making seasonal migrations. So, for a species to give up flight, there better be a damned good reason.
The solar panel revolution is coming.
“Everyone’s saying Facebook’s dead.” A new study explores teens’ strained relationship with the largest social network.
Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.
The Equator once marked the edge of the civilised world. If we put it at the center, we might see our place in the heavens.
I'm an embarrassingly slow driver, but I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to take part in a two-day race driving class at the Performance Driving Center at Sonoma Raceway and, while it didn't turn me into Mario Andretti, I'd like to pass on some of what I learned to any other rank but hopeful amateurs.
Some people think the palm lines in human hands foretell the future through the practice of palmistry. However, there's also a scientific explanation.
Tornado strength is currently measured on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which gives the tornado a rating from 0 to 5 based on estimated wind speeds and the severity of the damage.
Damon Lindelof, writer of Star Trek Into Darkness (and co-creator of Lost), has apologized on Twitter for what he called a “gratuitous” scene in the movie, in which the actor Alice Eve is shown in her bra and knickers as she attempts to pull on a torpedo-deactivating outfit.
A Tasmanian man set up a video camera to capture paranormal activity instead filmed his partner engaging in a sexual relationship with his teenage son, a court has heard.
The lesson here is you should never ask Weibo users to make you look cooler in a photograph.
Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates. And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has been facing the unusual problem of high end sports cars being abandoned and left to gather thick layers of dust at airport car parks and on the roadside across the city.
"Parade" magazine is apologizing for a recent design layout that used the silhouette of a ship that strongly resembles World War II Bismarck-class Nazi battleship.
With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation 4.
If our planet's increasingly extreme weather isn't caused by man-made climate change, then it stands to reason that it's actually caused by man-made supervillains using government technology to take American Freedoms with superstorms like Monday's mile-wide monster tornadoes.
But we're about to tell you.
Seven years after the Xbox 360 was released, here it is.
Tim Cook now knows what every teen feels like when their grandfather gets a smartphone.
The IRS isn’t too powerful. It’s too weak. And Obama must not let Republicans weaken it even more.
Honesty is the only policy, and you should always do your research before going abroad. The following infographic discusses varying tipping etiquette from around the world.
Here's the whole event cut down to under four minutes.
Dove's viral video gets it wrong: Psychological research says we're not as attractive as we'd like to believe.
Open offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick. So why do 70% of Americans work in them?
Apple finds itself in front of a Senate Subcommittee today, defending its practice of keeping cash offshore in order to minimize their tax liability. The thing is, Apple is far from the only company that does this.
If the death toll goes unchanged, the tornado will rank as the 37th most deadly since 1950, according to historical data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, mapped here.
The fluoridation war is alive in Portland, Ore.
Meet a young Manhattan couple whose entire relationship has played out on the streets of New York.
The Mongolian Stock Exchange occupies a single room. On any given day, it’s quieter than the nearby National Library, as 20 or so traders in cubicles click away softly on their laptops. This muted bourse hardly seems a place to make a fortune, but James Passin, who needs no prompting to declare that he’s “super bullish on Mongolia,” swears it is.
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