In a five-year study of college women, sociologists found that the term "slut" is capable of changing meaning to accommodate the pernicious goal of controlling women and creating hierarchy.

After decades of searching, still no evidence for dark matter has emerged, and some scientists are ready to abandon ship.

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies has identified 96 food products currently on the shelves of US grocery stores which contain microscopic pieces of metal. Do you know what's in your yogurt?

Turkey's highest judicial authority has ruled that shutting down Youtube--a policy advocated by the current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan--is a violation of freedom of expression, a right guaranteed by the Turkish constitution.

Medical marijuana has been legal in Canada for the past decade so its national government is well ahead of the curve when it comes to understanding effective regulation.

Technology innovator Stephen Wolfram argues that the universe may function less like a math equation and more like a computer program, demonstrating extremely complex behavior which could be based on relatively simple lines of natural code.

Recent studies disprove the cautionary tale of people's lives going down the tube as a result of winning the lottery.