Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geography isn’t just about naming capital cities or pointing to places on a map. It’s about understanding the world, how people ...

Mehran Gul’s “The New Geography of Innovation” started out as a study of whether U.S. technological dominance is waning. His research convinced him that he was asking the wrong question. While he ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

Iranian authorities have plunged the country into what witnesses describe as a near-total digital blackout in response to deadly nationwide protests against the Islamic republic, sharply limiting the ...

Iranians leaving their country spoke to RFE/RL about the scale of the deadly crackdown on protests. The death toll is at more than 2,600 demonstrators, according to the US-based human rights monitor ...

A fascinating deep dive into the discovery, use and implications of a revolutionary new treatment Few aspects of being human have generated more judgment, scorn and condemnation than a person’s size, ...

This $600 Body Scan 2 measures things most people only hear about in a doctor's office and can calculate how fast your body is aging. Vanessa is a lead writer at CNET, reviewing and writing about the ...

Experience Marseille through a calm 3D aerial virtual perspective, revealing France’s historic port city as seen from above. From the sky, the city’s expansive coastline, dense urban districts, and ...

Federal prosecutors unveiled charges Thursday against another six people, accusing them of defrauding public assistance programs in Minnesota — including two men they allege traveled to the state for ...

The TV veteran also starred on 'Marriage Lines,' 'Mapp & Lucia' and 'After Henry' and traveled with her late husband on 'Great Canal Journeys.' By Rhett Bartlett Prunella Scales, who starred with John ...

Prunella Scales, the actress best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in 1970s British comedy series “Fawlty Towers,” has died, her family told the UK’s PA Media news agency Tuesday. She was 93. Her family ...