In the wake of devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, a newly released scientific paper investigates how to trace the progress of a natural disaster through crowdsourced and tagged photographs ...

Scientists use social media -- vacation photos from Flickr -- to study how people use natural areas for tourism and recreation. Scientists affiliated with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford ...

There was a time when it advertised itself as a happy, yellow emoticon, but these days, it's more common for Yahoo ( YHOO) to wear an expression of guilt. The iconic Web portal stands accused of ...