Peter Lawrence Kane

Alissa Afornina was in a car accident that caused brain injuries that her lawyers argued caused her to become a dominatrix.

When a blizzard strikes, there are those who cower in their homes with canned foods, and those who make gigantic penises out of snow.

We spoke to Doulaye Koné, senior program officer for the Gates Foundation, to try to better understand the magic poop water contraption Bill Gates debuted this week.

Economic sanctions and the falling price of oil seem to be crippling Russia's fragile economy, but is that actually a good thing for the West?

Bonnie Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation put the venom she's received into a book.

We spoke to biologist ​Doug Emlen about the phenomenon of "sneaky males" and how medieval chainmail helped explain evolution as an endless series of arms races.

We talked to the zookeeper in charge of Thelma, the world-famous snake that just had a virgin birth. It may be unsettling to imagine one less barrier in the way of more snakes, but finding new ways of making snakes might just be important.

Games and novelties aside, there are simply fewer and fewer areas of daily life that remain to be "disrupted" by utopian-minded Silicon Valley geeks. The golden age of the app may be coming to an end.

We're succumbing to the economic equivalent of carbon monoxide. The future we were promised, of limitless leisure kept afloat by a few breezy hours of work each week, looks more distant than ever. Our destruction by automatons is disappointingly un...

The new Starbucks deal might seem like a win-win, but it's really just part of Howard Schultz's political agenda.