Starbucks says it will close its 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States for one afternoon to educate employees about racial bias.

Could the spread of social media and digital technology undermine democracy?

Nursing colleges add curricula to deal with a growing public health problem.

Fortnite Battle Royale has added a message to its mobile app telling kids not to play in school.

Experts have proposed using medical marijuana to help Americans struggling with opioid addiction.

Gregor Sailer makes work that challenges our understanding of what it means to encounter authenticity and illusion within photography.

Modern slavery is a crime that happens all over the world, sometimes right under our noses. Its victims often go unnoticed, simply because people don't know that slavery exists, or how to spot the signs that someone has fallen prey to traffickers.

A study of 126,000 rumours and false news stories spread on Twitter over a period of 11 years found that they travelled faster and reached more people than the truth.

Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation.

Social networks' failure to tackle cyber-bullying is risking the mental health of young people, a Children's Society survey has found.