Akira says it's about to leak gigabytes of sensitive data, but OpenOffice says it doesn't even have that type of data.

The Apache Software Foundation disputes claims that its OpenOffice project suffered an Akira ransomware attack, after the ...

Irish nonfiction writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh joins Ohio University’s Visiting Writers Series on Nov. 6 with a reading in ...

Mark Remy had a bone to pick with the City of Portland. “Almost three years ago now, I was noticing more and more litter,” he said. Remy is a writer and editor who lives in Portland, Ore. with his ...

A resident of the Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans was gardening in her backyard when she came across an unusual engraved stone. After reaching out to anthropology departments at the University ...

Anthony Horowitz describes himself as a shy child who didn’t enjoy sports and preferred getting lost in a good book from his father’s library. “What [my father] would do was talk to me about his love ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering ...

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The Chicago Architecture Center’s free annual spectacle, Open House Chicago, returns this weekend, unlocking the doors to more than 200 sites that most of us might not otherwise see. Some old ...

Senior physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles ...

Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Credit...Photo: Swiss Literary Archives, Bern ...