Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Mare Nostrum. Bone-chilling footage shows a great white shark swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, potentially marking the first time this apex ...

Granted, I wasn't alive in 1920 and can only imagine the financial trouble Americans faced at that time, but history tells me the situation was even worse than it is today. And when it comes to ...

Older Americans are sitting on $110 trillion of wealth. Their heirs might not get it anytime soon. Financial advisory firms like to talk about a looming event called “the great wealth transfer,” where ...

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The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted Tuesday to restrict students’ use of laptops and tablets in class and encourage pen-and-paper assignments instead, making it the first major ...

A big week for gamblers is in the cards. New York City’s first-ever full-fledged casino offering live table games will open next Tuesday — at Resorts World next to the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions. To build a clock, you need something that ticks in a perfectly repeatable way.

In a nutshell: Modern CSS has been pushed into some unusual places over the past few years, but few experiments stretch it as far as a fully playable version of Doom rendered entirely with HTML ...

My 14-year-old son insists on eating every meal in our formal dining room. A bowl of cereal. Microwave ramen noodles. Pizza. He won’t cut his fingernails or put his laundry away, and yet he opts for ...

It helps retail investors gain confidence knowing that a legendary capital allocator owns a business that they are interested in. This is the case with American Express (Amex for short): It has been a ...

Josh Safdie’s latest movie Marty Supreme spurred a renewed national interest in ping-pong. I played my way through New York City to try to find out more. From the set of Marty Supreme. It’s 10:30 am ...

Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom. By Jackie Mader This story was produced by The ...