The FAA has issued a special "experimental airworthiness certificate" to Amazon, allowing the company to conduct outdoor research, testing, and training of its Prime Air delivery drones.

This summer, it's game on or game over! When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. Watch as the arcaders save earth.

A US Air Force veteran has been charged on two counts for trying to join Islamic State jihadists in Syria after being sacked as a plane mechanic, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Tairod Pugh, 47, from New Jersey, travelled from Egypt to Turkey in Janua ...

Some awesome but potentially nauseating drone action from this amazing abandoned hospital in Spain.

Passwords are terrible: they're inefficient and they're often insecure, too. Many leading tech companies have embraced two-factor authentication as a more secure option, but they're optional and only those particularly concerned about ...

Edits to the Wikipedia entries of several high-profile police brutality cases, including those of Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, and Sean Bell, trace back to the headquarters of the New York Police Department, Capital New York reports this morning. The ...

Sam Simon, who was one of the major creative forces behind “The Simpsons” and who left the show after its fourth season in a lucrative arrangement that allowed him to spend much of the rest of his life giving his money away, died on Sunday at his hom ...

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old by a white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted, prompted protesters Saturday to take to the college town's streets with chants of "Black Lives Matter." The ...

An abandoned farm house in the middle of a wheat field. Photo by Jeff Edes.

Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement. The message, which was not verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and appeared to be by the group's leader, Abub ...

New York City's La Guardia Airport was closed Thursday after a Delta Air Lines jet skidded off the runway amid snowy weather. Metropolis looks at a social-media timeline of the incident.

In search for legendary “City of the Monkey God,” explorers find the untouched ruins of a vanished culture.

In the long, convoluted and complex legal battles facing Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, there was some bizarre stuff that happened late last year. As you may recall, early on, the US government seized basically all of his stuff and money. Dotcom has ...

A US military satellite exploded after detecting an unexplained “sudden spike in temperature”, sending dozens of chunks of debris tumbling into different orbits around Earth.

Canadians dress up their $5 bills to remember Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock on 'Star Trek.'

Lots of creators accidentally stumble upon their greatest inventions, from potato chips to stainless steel. Now, while trying to develop a pair of protective surgery eyewear, a Berkeley laboratory has inadvertently created a solution for color blindn ...

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers.

When a bear is hungry, he gets his way.

The Austrian parliament has passed controversial reforms to the country's century-old law on Islam. The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams ...

Lenovo.com has been hacked. Starting at 4PM ET, users visiting the site saw a slideshow of disaffected youths, set to the song "Breaking Free" from High School Musical. At 4:17, the site seemed to have reverted to its normal self, although ...