When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away ...

Walking after eating may feel like the last thing you want to do, but if weight loss is your goal, studies show that short strolls straight after meals could help you hit it. Back in 2011, the ...

Why did 10,000 steps become the global standard for health? Was it ever based on science? Not exactly—and here’s the step count we should actually be aiming for.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses his new memoir, "This Is For Everyone." In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It's a far cry from what the ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

If you grew up in the early 2000s, chances are you remember those heartbreaking commercials featuring sad-eyed animals paired with Sarah McLachlan’s “In the Arms of an Angel.” Even as a kid without a ...

In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published "The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy," arguing that America loses its moorings every 80-100 years: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War ...

This column was originally published in the Houston Post on Oct. 7, 1963. In it, Hale offers up praise for the bicycle.

This storybook lane of bucolic cottages on the Upper West Side forces even the most hardcore New Yorkers to do a double take. Two rare co-op units are now for sale along Pomander Walk, a hidden street ...

For more than a century, Pomander Walk has been one of New York’s most secretive enclaves — a gated row of Tudor-style cottages tucked between West 94th and 95th streets that feels more English ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.