Search results for

Thursday was shaping up to be another tumultuous day in the financial markets. Stock prices were falling after a big selloff in Asia and Europe. The trouble seems to have started in China.

Nielsen, the ratings company, says it has a way to track what TV shows are trending on Twitter and Facebook, which will give producers and advertisers a better way to measure audiences. NPR explores what this adds to the growing effort to measure online audience.

Up to three feet of snow has fallen over much of the East Coast, and areas in New Jersey and Delaware have seen record flooding — even higher than the surging waters of Hurricane Sandy.

It's funny, family planning researchers aren't that comfortable talking about ... s-e-x. But two of them did in a study about the impact of contraception on "coital frequency."

The spy agency can glean all sorts of information. But it's a double-edged sword because CIA employees may have left a detailed digital trail before they joined the agency.

The singer and lyricist — and the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Oscar — has written that the truth about her exclusion from the ceremony is "impossible to ignore."

The city council in Charlotte, N.C. has approved a nondiscrimination ordinance expanding LGBT protections. But state politicians quickly announced they plan to fight it over one thing: bathrooms.

China's Internet authorities have shut down all social media accounts of Ren Zhiqiang, a sharp-tongued real estate mogul compared by some in China to Donald Trump.

At many precincts in the 13 states that held party primary votes Tuesday, officials reported record voter participation.

Clay tablets show that Babylonian astronomers tracked planets using a method that was thought to be invented 1,400 years later. In a way, scientists say, the ancient techniques were "very modern."