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Starting July 24, the newest version of the Google Chrome is notifying users anytime they try to access an unencrypted or unsecure page. HTTP sites are…

Wall Street Journal investigative journalist Tawnell Hobbs recently reported about the threat.

For decades, we have known of only 14 convex pentagons that can do something called "tiling the plane." Now there is a 15th shape, but mathematicians are still far from knowing exactly how many exist.

The clock at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally runs three minutes fast and is set back to match Greenwich Mean Time only on Dec. 31. This year, it will keep running fast.

So far, artificial limbs, functioning guns, musical instruments and even human stem cells have been recreated using 3D printing. What's next? Well, what…

All around the city, Columbus has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance in a big way.As the commemorative events draw to a…

With 40 percent of its students at risk of failing, one radical new high school in Washington, D.C., wrestles with whether to lower its own high expectations.

Edgar runs WGBH's Curiosity Desk, where he aims to dig a little deeper (and sometimes askew) into topics in the news and looks for answers to questions posed by the world around us. His radio features can be heard onWGBH'sMorning Edition and All Things Considered, and he can also be heard regularly with Jim andMargery on Boston Public Radio. His television features can be seen regularly on Greater Boston. Each Friday, he takes 89.7 listeners back in time with his feature, "This Week in Massachusetts History."

Back-to-back Clinton controversies are making Democrats queasy. But should they be?

The settlement is now public because of computer error. Pennsylvania families, whose ordeal was detailed in a Pulitzer-winning book, claimed air, groundwater and soil contamination.