The Burj Dubai skyscraper under construction here reached its 100th story on Tuesday, nearly two-thirds of the way in its relentless climb to become the world’s tallest building. With 3,000 laborers adding a new floor nearly every three days, the $1 billion spire is days away from surpassing a neighboring skyscraper that is currently the [...]

British scientists say they’ve determined people with amnesia have difficulty imagining future events with any richness of detail and emotion.

Several U.S. cities have or are considering outlawing trans fats in restaurant food, but now scientists have cast doubt on a method of replacing such fat.

Education is becoming the preferred method for diagnosing and attacking a wide range problems in American life. The No Child Left Behind Act is one prominent example. Another is the recent volley of articles that blame rising income inequality on the increasing economic premium for advanced education.

For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.

Here is a compilation of realistic looking ads. These advertisments may not be just off-the-peg, but these genius works are timeless.

Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union’s best-kept secrets. Dr Frankenstein had nothing on these guys.

Two authors who failed to convince Britain’s High Court that Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" took their case to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

A New York hospital is taking steps to offer the nation’s first uterus transplant, a radical experiment that might allow women whose wombs were removed or are defective to bear children.

For those of you who are getting bored with life, here is a contraption that will put an entire waffleiron full of adrenaline back into your hotseat.  (w/video)

Here is an amazing map of the US that places a name of a country with a comparable GDP on each state.

A man beset by problems since winning a record lottery jackpot says he can’t pay a settlement to a casino worker because thieves cleaned out his bank accounts.

When he first started frying up all-natural doughnuts a dozen years ago, Mark Isreal had a tough time getting consumers to bite. After all, who counts calories before grabbing a jelly-filled with their morning cup of joe?

Black is the somber backdrop designers have chosen for next winter’s menswear at shows this week, but every so often they cannot resist some blonde fake fur or 1960s ruffle shirts.