Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson's career, says the man is hard to pin down.

Facebook serves as a gatekeeper of the information diets of more than 200 million Americans and 2 billion users worldwide.

July 29, 2019 is 'Earth Overshoot Day,' a date coined by the nonprofit Global Footprint Network to publicize overuse of Earth's resources. But their estimates may actually understate the problem.

Hagfish have been called the most disgusting creatures in the ocean. But what are they?

An estimated 500,000 Rohingya children, refugees from Myanmar, are growing up in Bangladesh in overcrowded camps with no access to formal education.

Presidential candidates have been proposing plans to expand health coverage, lower prescription drug costs and make hospital bills more transparent. But few get to the real problem. Here's why.

A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits.

As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen 'raid' on the famed Area 51 to 'see them aliens,' a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype.

A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.

Even the tidiest space has some dust. Researchers are investigating just what these indoor particles are made of and their possible implications for human health.