The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art".

Putting feelings into words makes sadness and anger less intense, US brain researchers said on Wednesday, in a finding that explains why talking to a therapist– or even a sympathetic bartender– often makes people feel better.

The baby-boomers’ kids are marching into the workplace, and look out: This crop of twentysomethings really is different. Fortune’s Nadira Hira presents a field guide to Generation Y.

Move over, Paris Hilton. We all have celebrity issues in an age when anyone can create an online profile, post confessional videos on YouTube, or make snarky online comments about other people.

A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.

Britain’s newest medical museum features Charles Darwin’s walking stick, Napoleon’s toothbrush and anatomical drawings by Leonard da Vinci.

Stuttering affects more than 3 million Americans — approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population — but many stuttering myths persist.

A new wind detection system installed at Tokyo International Airport will provide air traffic control personnel with improved monitoring of wind activity and advanced warning of hazards such as low-level wind shear. The WindTracer system developed by Lockheed Martin is a Doppler LiDAR (light detection and ranging) system that provides high-resolution wind data and mapping [...]

When a newborn baby hippo was washed up by a flood onto the lawn of his riverside home, the game ranger who found the dying animal lovingly nursed her back to health. The weakened female survived, put on weight, and grew . . . and g-r-e-w . . . and GREW! Now the hippo that [...]

US consumers of ages 13 to 17 spend more time with media overall than other age groups do, and their total media time has grown by more than two and a half hours per day since May 2004.