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These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

In May of this year, my colleague Elena Vosnaki announced the revival of the first three editions of Dior's La Collection Privée collection with the words, "Why not re-issue a triptych of highly acclaimed scents from Di...

Google appears to be preparing a few additions to the Pixel phone's "At a Glance" widget that will make it easier to track the status of your Uber ride or food delivery.

Beverly Robinson says she was "violently" knocked down by an employee pushing the carts, causing extensive injuries and putting her out of work.

A large fire spread tore through a 17th Century boutique hotel on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island Saturday.

Paleontologists have unearthed a new dinosaur species with tiny arms. The species, newly named Meraxes gigas, is a carnivorous species that would have gone extinct at the start of the Late Cretaceous period, roughly 90 t...

The Veranda House, an upscale bed and breakfast in downtown Nantucket, caught fire before 7 a.m.

President Biden signed a new $400 million military package for Ukraine Friday, including four more high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS).

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of human-made chemicals that can be risk factors for various conditions, including certain types of cancer. As a result, whenever tests show PFAS chemicals in food o...

Airlines are coming up with creative ways of coping with the summer travel chaos, with some even curtailing the number of low-cost tickets available.

Good astrology sees the current moment as a mirror of the past, and we like retracing what we "predicted" and making it more real by comparing it to real-life over the past 6 months. Doing this, we may also get clearer w...

This one's a hoot.

The crew that organized a protest outside a D.C. steakhouse where Brett Kavanaugh was dining apparently has some more demonstrations to dish up.

Species are likely to die long before we have a chance to discover them. How can we ensure they're not lost forever?

Scientists have begun a new search for mysterious dark matter in a former gold mine a mile underground in Lead, South Dakota.      

The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday he had discussed Russian aggression in Ukraine during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and raised concerns over Beijing...

Biden is scheduled to travel to the Middle East July 13-16 to promote peace in the region and make a desperate effort to convince Saudi Arabia to help ease record-high gas prices.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, 69, has two children with ex-gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva, who is 30 years younger -- and is reportedly not pleased she's expecting another girl.

One victim said in a statement to the judge that Jeffrey Fields had "changed my life completely. He changed who I am at my core."

I took Myrkl, a pre-drinking pill, before post-work drinks with colleagues. The next morning, I felt like I'd barely had any alcohol at all.

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.