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Public passion is all well and good, but it will take more than big talk to get to Mars by 2025, space specialists say. Even several rockets' worth of cash won't easily solve the technical challenges.

Judy Rivers told a Senate panel she had trouble getting a job after being declared dead by the Social Security Administration. She was accidentally placed in the agency's "Death Master File."

Daniel Willingham's new book is full of advice for parents and teachers hoping to nurture a love of reading in kids.

When online social networks open up spaces for suicide prevention with untrained peer support, they walk the fragile line between invasion of privacy and supporting those who need help.

Couples nowadays are tying the knot in original ways — like some pioneering newlyweds in America's past.

The company brought the hammer down at its locations in the Netherlands, after more than 32,000 people signed up via Facebook to play at a store in Eindhoven.

Two Syracuse men have been arrested for their roles in a large heroin distribution takedown first announced last week that was funneling drugs to the…

From 3,000-year-old peat bogs to 19th-century Brazil to modern foodies, the love of Irish butter has spread far. The secret to Ireland's deliciously rich, creamy butter is in its rolling green hills.

The perfect example, says critic David Bianculli, is HBO's The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Spread out over six weeks, the finale had the most chilling TV moment he's seen in years.

The Gullah people, who are descendants of West African slaves, want to return to land the U.S. government took away during World War II. But the land has been a wildlife refuge for 40 years.