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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting.

PBS releases an animated video featuring audio from the cutting room floor of a 2009 Newsweek interview with Maurice Sendak.

Ward Chartier almost choked on his breakfast croissant he ordered at Oakland International Airport recently.The reason for his consternation: an item on the bill that he thought he recognized, but

If they had passports, they’d probably eat them. A herd of about 25 goats will soon arrive at Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport and...

Two 10th-grade students wanted to know what happens when you wring out a water-soaked washcloth in zero gravity.

Silicon Valley East? How Cornell is creating a cutting-edge graduate school from scratch.

Jay Parkinson is a founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virtual doctor’s office, examining patients by e-mail and text message.

Facebook and Instagram have conditioned people into sharing photos of their most memorable moments — vacations, parties, weddings, meals and outings with friends.

Google will make Glass, its augmented reality glasses, available to people who apply, are chosen and willing to pay $1,500 to try them.

On the tenth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, one NASA astronaut remembers the most important thing we lost: our people.

Hypersonic "SpaceLiner" will whisk 50 passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes by riding a rocket that will reach 24 times the speed of sound.

New technology is poised to fundamentally refashion driving long before completely autonomous vehicles arrive.

By Sheryl Dluginski

Maps that are dynamic, adapting to current conditions like traffic, are the most useful of all, which helps explain why Google wants to buy a popular social mapping service.

Apollo 11 astronaut and author Buzz Aldrin can now add "singer" to his resume.

Although developing apps for Google Glass isn't currently a very lucrative endeavor — ads aren't allowed, and the device costs $1,500 — developers are creating new ways to use the wearable device every day Case in point: an app that lets Google Glass...

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Every year, TIME recognizes those who exemplify the very best wit and wisdom Twitter has to offer. Here are the 140 feeds that inspire us to laugh, learn or shake our heads in wonderment.

A few weeks ago I was home watching a basketball game with my 5-year-old nephew, Jack. It was fantastic to be hanging out with him, period. But he ended up taking my brain off cruise control and

We need a curriculum of big questions, examinations where children can talk, share and use the Internet, and new, peer assessment systems. In the networked age, we need schools, not structured like factories, but like clouds.

If designers understood more about the mathematics of attraction, the mechanics of affection, all design could both look good and be good for you.

It's empty phraseology designed to sound like we are preparing for the future when we are already living in that future; and no one believes that what passes for a typical classroom today will be the classroom experience even 10 years from now, let...

Charging your mobile device wirelessly via a chip embedded into Starbucks tables or inside cars could become more commonplace, thanks to a new backing.