Would become first in the nation to ban the tech

In a lawsuit, the state targets eight members of the Sackler family.

A shadowy startup claims it can target an individual Facebook user to bend him or her to a client’s will. Experts are… not entirely convinced.

Many Americans would welcome some traits of the island’s free, universal health care system.

The story of Dr. Rapp

Let’s say your relationship is on the rocks. You’ve been trying to work things out together in couples’ counselling, but ultimately, you want to know if it is worth the effort. Will things get better, or are they doomed to fall apart?

The Trump administration on Monday proposed rules that would allow drones to ope...

While the endangered state of southern resident killer whales received plenty of attention in 2018, the humpback whale population has seen a resurgence. According to numbers collected for a year-end report by the Marine Education and Research Societ ...

A simple contest of sci-fi strategy, ‘Spacewar!’ ushered in what is now a 140 billion dollar industry.

Another year, another end-of-year video.

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Not standing out is by design.

The kilogram used to be an object, but now it’s a constant of nature.

Go analog at your next party with one of these new classics

36 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.

‘The changes have become more radical’: farmers are spending more time and money trying to grow crops in new climates. Richard Oswald did not need the latest US government report on the creeping toll of climate change to tell him that farming in the ...

The inventor of the water bed is reprising and updating it for a Casper world.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

At some point in the future, we will perhaps look back at this week as the week that brought a time switch in the Mueller probe. This was the week in which we learned that a lot of what had been reported as speculative, or reported but not taken seri ...

The entomologist nominated to be the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C., said today he accepts the conclusions of a new federal report on climate change that President Donald Trump has dismissed and that ...