Updated: Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight

Are there invisible forces at work in the world?

Elements of smart homes, including thermostats, may be vulnerable to hackers

Tenn. Rep. Andy Ogles dubiously claimed he was an economist, a police officer and a sex trafficking expert

The findings raise questions about Twitter’s function in creating a toxic national political discourse

As the show’s popularity surged, interest in suicide also grew

Ethics experts question whether the in-house ethics monitors can be truly independent

Thank you, Science, for proving to our bosses that we're not procrastinating

The pervasiveness of the "attention economy" culture has a hand to play in wild trends like this one

Hulu and Google will soon introduce their own bundled channel services. Will it change anything?

A sitcom that forbade hugging and learning becomes a tool for teaching Aristotle. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Its most deleterious effect: The proliferation of charter schools means underperforming children get left behind

It might sound scary, but the "dark web" is not much different from the rest of the internet