A new study found that certain fungi can settle in the pancreas, where they spur the growth of tumors.

A controversial dam will swell the Tigris River until its waters submerge the ancient city of Hasankeyf, forcing longtime residents to flee and swallowing up cultural treasures.

“What public markets do is indeed the great reckoning. But it cleanses [a] company of all of the bad stuff that they have.”

An Indian tea farm is the first in the world to embrace elephant conservation practices. Meet the farmer saving elephants one cup of tea at a time.

I often hear that when compiling C and C++ programs I should "always enable compiler warnings". Why is this necessary? How do I do that?

Sometimes I also hear that I should "treat warnings as err...

Driving simulation tests suggest that human memory, rather than negligence, may be responsible for "looked but failed to see" collisions, a new study suggests.

Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c...

Facebook will oppose a ruling that says EU laws do not preclude demands that illegal content be taken down in non-EU countries, Kaspersky caught Uzebk intelligence services developing new spyware

The computations required for deep learning research have been doubling every few months, resulting in an estimated 300,000x increase from 2012 to 2018 [2]. These computations have a surprisingly...

Many modern glass-box developments do not allow for human-scale places.

In a sign that the marketing wars over streaming-video are escalating, Disney isn’t accepting advertising from rival Netflix across its entertainment TV networks.

Facebook took down over 200 accounts associated with a previous operation using the platform for propaganda.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vow to phase out ‘inefficient’ subsidies for coal, oil and gas still hasn’t happened — despite the escalating costs of the climate emergency

Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets

Marking the bicentenary of Byron’s death; a shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey’; what pilgrimage means today; eclipses and philosophy – and much more