How we memorialize significant events says a lot about our perception of time.

Mobile phones and social media can help create a better society. They can also be used to surveil, deceive, threaten, and incite violence.

Whether across the expanse of thousands of years or alongside a river, the hand wave is a gesture that holds social meaning. But has it always been used as a positive greeting?

As the world’s Indigenous languages fade away at an alarming rate, some people are turning to technology to preserve their ancestors’ native tongues—and the cultural knowledge held in them.

Instagram user accounts reveal how bears are honored as part of nature—or turned into cold hard cash.

A small neighborhood in the developing world built fame and fortune through their connection to the internet. Can the lessons it offers help wire the world?

A brief encounter with a new artificial intelligence suggests we may not be able to control the message we send to extraterrestrial intelligences.

Five women elders from remote Western Australia share the joys and meanings of Aboriginal sign language.