Detective Wallace “Wally” Tennelle was a rarity: a cop who actually lived in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where he worked.

Three jumbo squids found themselves wearing fancy "sweaters" recently, thanks to a team of scientists from Stanford and the National Geographic Society

Emotional labor is a concept that sociologist Arlie Hochschild developed in the 1983 book The Managed Heart.

The first transcontinental telephone call was put through on January 25, 1915.

The debate about how much of the government's money should come from the rich is a conversation that goes back more than 100 years.

The relationship between GPA and the performance of good and bad teachers seems modest at best.

Michael W. Apple traces both the growth of home schooling and its related political activism to virtual communities made possible by the Internet.

At its worst, science research fraud might have deadly consequences. What can be done about it?

It’s estimated that roughly 20% of the population are so-called "super-spreaders" who cause 80% of infectious disease cases.

To imagine the end of modern corporations as we currently know them, it helps to go back to their birth.