Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.

Q: What is the ROI of advertising? A: Stop advertising and find out.

Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird’s flight, state media said.

Communist leaders have no plans to allow democracy in the near future because they must focus on economic development before political reform, China’s No. 3 leader said in comments published Tuesday.

The illegal trade of elephant ivory has reached such unprecedented levels in Africa that the authors of a U.S. report published Monday are urging western nations to provide more aid for better enforcement.

Europeans — especially the French — aren’t too keen on digital rights management (DRM) with their music. Still, the German market for legitimate music downloading grew by a third in the past year, according to new data from BITKOM.

New research at the University of Maryland looks at why kids decide to include - and exclude - other kids from their group of friends. It turns out the decision making process is much more complex than previously believed, and could even provide insights into how to intervene when children are rejected by their peers. […]