It may seem like a long leap to make from the R-rated streets of Tokyo's red light district to the yarrr-rated ...

South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or ...

Physicists have found a simple and effective way to skip over an energy level in a three-state system, potentially leading to ...

When storms roll in, plenty of people prefer to hunker down at home, safe from the rain and wild weather. Some even see it as ...

Platreef, one of the world's largest undeveloped precious metals deposits, to be lowest cost platinum, palladium, rhodium, ...