Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up in southern India with almost no formal education, but his mind never stopped creating mathematics. Using nothing but a single outdated textbook, he taught himself advanced ...

What can the US do about a metastasizing Islam within the country? When Israel bolted from southern Lebanon, it had many problems. “Barak Barach” in Hebrew means Barak—that is, Ehud Barak—ran away.

LAUNCH COMPLEX 14, Cape Canaveral, Fla.—The platform atop the hulking steel tower offered a sweeping view of Florida’s rich, sandy coastline and brilliant blue waves beyond. Yet as captivating as the ...

Meet Ben, a non-binary activist who designed a website that helps other non-binary people. Their outward appearance may attract attention, but ever since they stopped looking at life through a binary ...

There is hope the Thanksgiving holiday will be spared, but carriers will need some time to deal with the disruptions that the shutdown has caused for air travel. By Niraj Chokshi The federal ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Friday he could force airlines to cut up to 20% of flights if the government shutdown did not end, as U.S. airlines on ...

Norah O'Donnell is CBS News' senior correspondent and a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent. O'Donnell is also the host of CBS News 24/7's "Person to Person," where she brings interviews that go ...

Further signs of strain in the credit market risks provoking another broad equities rout as long-only investors, including pension funds, will be compelled to sell, according to strategists at Bank of ...

Quantum computers are built to tackle problems that push past what human minds, and even our best supercomputers, can manage. That power raises a simple but tough question: when a quantum device spits ...

The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch responsible for proposing new laws, has a plan for dealing with the continent’s unwanted refugee population. To boil it down: “out of sight, out of ...

The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning ...