Of all the youth hostel-style accommodations I have visited around the world, one of my favorites was Prince Henry’s School of Navigation in Sagres, Portugal. Word had passed along the travel trail ...

For young cost-conscious travelers worldwide, hostels are as much a staple as fold-up maps and books of foreign phrases. They date to 1909, when German schoolteacher Richard Schirrmann arranged for ...

From Austin to Bangkok, these hostels with redeveloped buildings and transformed open spaces have the wow factor With a symmetrical pastel-blue exterior, a la Wes Anderson, and block colour splashes ...

Every research project begins with a question. And the ones universities choose to pursue often reveal what they consider important. At IIT Kanpur, one recent research question focused on an everyday ...

Back in 2005, when Eli Roth’s slasher film “Hostel” (the first of three in the gory series) hit the theaters, I was a young college student who’d recently traveled to Europe on a shoestring budget. I ...