A new study found that the top 10% of households are responsible for 40% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions

A study compares snowpack across the world & offers a tool to help scientists pinpoint where the resource is waning

In this era of reboots, this one is particularly unoriginal and unnecessary, even with its inclusive updates

The number of living languages is shrinking fast -- but does that matter?

Salon talks to the author of "What the F" about the scientific purposes of profanity and why some words are taboo

HBO is being blackmailed for millions of dollars from hackers that have stolen tons of data

As the flames began to rise, the arsonists appeared

History will judge you for your choice.

A straight woman has a thing for guy-on-guy action and wants to know: \"What\'s up with that?\"

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for insights into the world of quantum entanglement

If the country's gap between production and consumption continues to grow, the whole world will be in trouble

We have it backwards: cheap meat— easy to prepare, eaten on the go — is innate to our unequal system

An assignment asking students to remember 5 Pillars of Islam amounts to the "state sponsoring religions in schools"

With Facebook under siege and beset by scandal, do we trust the boy-CEO to reform the surveillance giant?

What does a closer look at the presidential candidate's Austrian beach reading tell us about the modern GOP?