If you saw animal campaign signs stretching down the Somerville Community Path this summer, we’re here to tell you that a four-legged leader has finally been elected. Meet the cat mayor. Before ...

Another week, another messy poll for Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee. A new survey from the University of Rhode Island pegs McKee’s job approval at 29 percent, down 26 percentage points from the same ...

J. Scott Thurlow is a Senior Contributor based in the NYC Metropolitan Area. While he is not actually Alan Wake, Scott has been ranting about games since falling in love with them at a young age.

DTE's Energy’s Monroe Power Plant on the shore of Lake Erie. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger Americans empowers the government to ...

Cadets of the National Cadets Corp light candles as tribute to those killed in the protests, at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu on September 17. The protests in Nepal earlier in September that led to ...

That sequence of strange symbols on the Bash command line must mean something, right? We're breaking down special characters ...

What is consciousness? Is it like a computer in our heads? Some cognitive scientists think so but others, like Berkeley neuroscientist Terrence Deacon, say it’s more like a programmer than a computer.