NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters. The ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

About 58 per cent of Iran’s attacks on its Gulf neighbours have been directed at the UAE. We find out why. The UAE has long lived with an uneasy proximity to Iran. Just 55km of water separates the two ...

If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn’t make him a pacifist — it just means he has bad aim. Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn’t be wise or honorable; it ...

Massachusetts employers should take a closer look at how they structure employee bonus plans. A recent state court ruling in Pres v. Sensys Gatso USA, Inc. serves as a cautionary tale. Vague or poorly ...

The JavaScript innovation train is really picking up momentum lately, driven—as always—by the creativity of the JavaScript developer community. The emerging local-first SQL datastores crystalize ideas ...

Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? Humans have a highly complex brain and, ...

Google has removed a whole section from its JavaScript SEO documentation because it was outdated and Google says loading content with JavaScript does not make it hard for Google Search. Google wrote ...

Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And beyond her belief that the Jonas Brothers member is “a prodigy” at his craft, which her dad “would have loved,” Priyanka knows ...

Even when snow blankets the streets, some still show bare thighs. Our critic explores some possible motivations. By Vanessa Friedman I’m seeing more and more people, men and women, wearing shorts ...