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He’s the lighthouse keeper, the sheep farmer, the firefighter, the air-traffic controller… We try to keep up with Billy Muir, the pensioner who almost single-handedly keeps the tiny island economy of North Ronaldsay afloat

He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever

Thousands of unsettling videos have been uploaded to YouTube over the past year. Nobody knows what they mean or who’s behind them.

Think women can’t do pullups? Think again.Commandant Gen. Robert Neller is reviewing an approach to learning that pullups that has obliterated the myth that women are too frail physically to pull their chin over the bar.Col.

Online abuse can be cruel – but for some tech companies it is an existential threat. Can giants such as Facebook use behavioural psychology and persuasive design to tame the trolls?

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.

I would like to tell you about the biggest lie in book publishing: It’s the word “bestseller.”

When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his latest projects are pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight -- from a flying wing that can hover and recover from disturbance to an eight-propeller craft that's ambivalent to orientation ... to a swarm of tiny coordinated micro-quadcopters. Prepare to be dazzled by a dreamy, swirling array of flying machines as they dance like fireflies above the TED stage.

Long before dating sites, a pair of economists delved into the question of matchmaking, and hit upon a formula with appl…

On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the Huxtables and the world's best amateur athletes. Fox over NBC and CBS—its first-ever victory in prime time. New over old.

"The attacks are completely non-intrusive: we did not modify the targets or open their chassis."