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‘Breadcrumbing’ is a subtle manipulation technique used to create a one-sided relationship. Here’s how to spot it.

Cocktail lounges, five course meals, caviar and an endless flow of champagne: life on board airplanes was quite different during the “golden age of travel,” the period from the 1950s to the 1970s that is fondly remembered for its glamor and luxury.

Surf’s up, dawg! This past weekend at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California — about a 20-minute drive south of San Francisco — a variety of dogs and their owners gathered for the World Dog Surfing Championships.

Counterfeit energy drinks were lightning in a bottle for Adriana and Joseph Shayota, netting them a million dollars a month until the feds closed in. But they had one chance to clear their name: President Donald Trump.

The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging and cancer.

New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson struggled with math at school, finding inspiration in literature instead. But aged 65, in the hope of unlocking a new part of his brain, he decided to put the limits of his intelligence to the test.

“Too many films are love-letters to New York City; Die Hard with a Vengeance is one of its rare pieces of hate mail.”

Sixty years ago, Spider-Man hit newsstands for the very first time.

In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles.

A Supreme Court shift, frowning on changes close to elections, gives House Republicans a big advantage in November.