On 1982, "Time" magazine named the personal computer its "Machine of the Year." The news devastated Steve Jobs.

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

The most iconic and infamous twin films in movie history include the pairings of Antz and A Bug's Life, and The Prestige and ...

A little over 50 years ago, Mexico decided to build a resort destination from scratch. It exceeded everyone's expectations.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait ...