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Koji Sasahara/AP Less than a week after winning the biggest event of his young career at the Japan Open, 21-year-old Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios reverted to his maddeningly immature ways on Tuesday at the Shang...

Renowned theoretical physicist, Brian Greene, explains string theory as if he's talking to a graduate student of physics and then he boils it down for the rest of us. Greene is the co-founder of the World Science Festiv...

The value of the British pound sterling may have been dropping in recent weeks but imaginative Brits have found a way to put cash to work: It turns out the …

Promoting his initiative for boys and young men of color, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that helping these males stay out of trouble and on the right path is an …

A top Wells Fargo executive and a former employee painted very different pictures of the culture and oversight at the San Francisco bank during a hearing by a California Assembly committee on Tuesday that probed the open...

Amazon has been trading at an all-time high lately, shattering the $800 mark for the first time late last month. Now it's hovering around $840 per share. But a number of Wall Street analysts see another 20% upside in Ama...

Wikimedia Commons After eliminating his rivals in a civil war, general and politician Gaius Julius Caesar began serving as dictator of Rome in 49 BCE. He established a number of political reforms before getting stabbed t...

Pandora has revealed the latest step in its mission to reinvent itself — a new logo. The new ‘P’ icon logo was unveiled today alongside a lively new rebrand video (see above), and will soon represent the company ac...

Tethered as we are to our smartphones, Samsung asking users of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to "power down and stop using the device" is not just an inconvenience. It's …

Lessons from three companies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the "stabilization" of the Russian economy Wednesday but said more can be done to promote growth. Russia's economy contracted by 3.7 percent last year on …

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has blown up for good -- and Apple and Google are picking through the wreckage. Shares of Apple edged higher Tuesday as analysts predicted the iPhone 7 will be the big beneficiary of Samsung per...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite, is still incredibly deadly. In the past 15 years, the rate of malaria deaths has dropped 57%, according to a Bill and Melinda Gates-back...

As well as the relationship between performance and value.

U.S. central bankers debating the merits of raising interest rates last month described the decision as a close call.

Economics has been a crutch for some Republicans who want to convince themselves that, of two hated candidates, Donald Trump is the one who shares most of their values. He doesn't like taxes--boy, does he not like taxes-...

A close look at the hotel marketing buried in Trump's presidential campaign

The first step in defending yourself is knowing your enemies.

Jared Wickerham/AP Microsoft Cortana — a virtual assistant picking the winner of every NFL game on Bing — went 8-6 in Week 5, helping to improve its record on the year to 41-36 (53%).  Week 5 featured several sur...

Two health insurance mergers under regulatory scrutiny seem to be taking different paths.

In the last 6 months, banks such as Kotak Mahindra Bank and DBS Bank rolled out a feature that lets you open an account directly through their app

Justin Gmoser/Business Insider When Jason Pockett joined the TSA in 2010, he said his intentions weren't wholly altruistic. "In all honesty, what brought me to the TSA was the health insurance and the pay," Pocket told B...