While Harvard University administrators are taking heat after they secretly searched 16 residential deans’ e-mail last year in order to track down a leak, IT experts say that the right policies could have prevented the uproar.

New York City's plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants, movie theaters and other establishments was invalidated by a judge on Monday, the day before the new law was to take effect.

Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to "like" on Facebook, a study suggests.

If the luck of the Irish is with you, there will be shamrocks, Guinness and a party of fine friends to share your St. Patrick's Day celebrations on March 17th.

Robin Nagle's title at New York University—clinical associate professor of anthropology and urban studies—doesn't exactly strike fear in the hearts of men.

A few days ago I attended my aunt's 50th birthday party. It was a terrific bash—her friends and family were there in suits and cocktail dresses ...

Boy, 7, suspended for chewing his pastry into the shape and saying, “bang, bang.”

In China, hysteria is growing about a rising number of so-called “leftover women”, who are highly successful but remain unmarried.

Human beings are supremely sensitive to context, to the cues we sense in our surroundings, and never more so than when we’re performing.

Psychologist and parent Lynn Schofield Clark did. She writes in the Psychology Today blog that she liked the 18-point contract that a New England mom wrote up for her 13-year-old son, however, as we talked it over in my own family, we felt that, rather than having me as the mom write something up, we wanted to work together on an agreement.