Right-wing politicians are pouncing on an ambitious law seeking to curb hate speech online. By Linda Kinstler.

It’s getting harder for Angela Merkel and the German elite to hold back growing anti-Americanism. By Leonid Bershidsky.

What a difference a year or two can make: If you started smoking marijuana at the start of your teens, your risk of having a drug abuse problem by age 28 is 68 per cent, but if you started smoking between 15 and 17 your risk drops to 44 per cent, according to a new study by Université de Montréal researchers.

NASA has spent about $100 billion on the International Space Station, but the Trump administration wants to end the program in 2024 — about four years early. NASA's lead auditor told Congress the plan may jeopardize NASA research into protecting astronauts on future moon or Mars missions.

Scientists can finally track the civilization’s economic booms and recessions—thanks to the exhaust of its massive coin-making operation, preserved for centuries in Greenland’s ice sheet.

Is it possible for the world to run on 100 percent renewable energy? It's a noble goal, as the best science tells us we must significantly slash fossil fuel consumption or else the planet faces dangerous climate change.

The Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC), slated to launch "later this year," looks almost incomplete at first glance. The clean, confusing-looking slab, nearly the length and width of an Xbox One S, has no joysticks. The usual selection of Xbox inputs has been reduced down to a few menu buttons, a D-pad, and two black, hand-sized pads.

Lattice cryptography is interesting for a few reasons. For one thing, nobody knows how to break it with a quantum computer, which would be pretty important if anyone knew how to build a quantum computer.

He helped artificial intelligence gain a strong grasp on probability, but laments that it still can't compute cause and effect.

The arrival of the disease in Mbandaka, a bustling port city, is “a game changer,” a World Health Organization official said.

HIV patients on a single-tablet daily regimen had better outcomes than patients taking multiple pills per day, a new study shows.

When it comes to studying the genetics of the brain, Soo-Kyung Lee is a star, yet she was stunned to discover the cause of her daughter’s devastating disabilities.