Film is sci-fi, but its premise may one day be true. Could we move Earth to a wider orbit?

The scientific legacy of a quest to prove the Book of Mormon

“Eco-anxiety” and trauma from natural disasters will be on the rise along with sea levels

PCs are where the action is at, Nvidia says.

A top regulator came close Thursday, but ultimately backed away from directly raising the notion of giving the boot to exhaust-belching automobiles.

If the trend continues, age screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered, researchers say.

A new experiment confirms the existence of superionic ice, a black and hot form of water that might make up the bulk of giant icy planets.

Evangelicalism is dying. Oh, Evangelicals still make lots of noise and have a stranglehold on the Republican Party, but their grip on America is weakening and, in time, their hold will falter, leading to epic collapse.

James Holzhauer's 22-game Jeopardy winning streak continues to push the show's ratings higher. The syndicated game show drew its best household rating in 14 years in the week of April 29. The show's 8.3 mark among households was the highest for Jeopardy since March 2005.

Today it was confirmed by court officials that the late creator of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee’s former manager Keya Morgan is being charged with ‘elder abuse’ in relation to his conduct while managing the mogul. The Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed today via a spokeswoman that Morgan had been charged with five counts of ‘elder abuse’ on Friday. The counts of abuse include false imprisonment, fraud, and forgery. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

A study published last week in Science Advances comparing pre- and post-rideshare boom traffic in the US city of San Francisco found that the presence of Uber, Lyft, and similar companies has been an overall detriment for people who like getting where they’re going quickly.

"Avengers: Endgame" is smashing all kinds of box office records in China. The Disney (DIS) and Marvel movie pulled in $18.3 million in China over the weekend, bringing its total earnings to $603 million and cementing its place as the country's highest-grossing foreign film ever, according to industry tracker Ent Group. "Endgame" is only the third movie — and the first foreign title — to cross the $600 million mark in China.

A wild raccoon has moved into Heidelberg Zoo in Germany and keepers can’t kick him out. German daily Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung reported Friday that zoo staff recently discovered the uninvited guest inside the raccoon enclosure, where he seemed to be getting along fine with the seven original residents.

Netflix recently released a new nature documentary series, Our Planet, and its bland title is only the first indication that it is attempting to compete with the BBC’s popular Planet Earth and Blue Planet series. As with those shows, it too has soothing narration by David Attenborough, and it likewise involves the editing down of unimaginable hours of nature footage into narratives neat enough for humans to consume.

Neuralink, if Elon Musk is to be believed, could be the next step in human evolution. The company's Neural Lace technology could help stave off the potential downsides of AI to humanity and could even trigger the Technological Singularity. In the following article, we'll try to lift the lid on this secretive company and see what the technology hopes to achieve. Welcome to the future of mankind!

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the political will to fight climate change seems to be fading at the same time as things are getting worse for those feeling the effects. Guterres made the comments after arriving in Auckland, where he spoke to reporters alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Guterres plans to spend three days in New Zealand as part of a trip to the South Pacific to highlight the problems of climate change.

A modder has taken control of Mortal Kombat 11's camera to peek behind its virtual curtain. YouTuber DennisNetwork began by uploading a series of videos that reveal the innards of some of Mortal Kombat 11's stages. In the video below we see the audience in the Tournament stage - and learn they have no legs. We also get up close with the arcade cabinets to see footage of the various Mortal Kombat games that normally plays out in the background in much greater detail.

This week, almost 700 former federal prosecutors, including prominent Republicans, signed a letter saying the Mueller report lays out offenses against President Donald Trump that would lead to indictment if committed by anyone who isn’t president. All of which is another way of saying that a corrupt executive is the problem of Congress, not of prosecutors.

Thursday night, ultra-billionaire Jeff Bezos—whose net worth is in excess of $157 billion—outlined a vision of an “incredible civilization” with trillions of people living in space, at a small, invite only event in Washington, DC. Bezos organized the event to unveil a new lunar lander developed by his space company Blue Origin. But the specifications of this lunar lander matter less than Bezos’s vision of utopia.

Climate change has already increased the spread and severity of a fatal disease caused by Ranavirus that infects common frogs (Rana temporaria) in the UK, according to research led by ZSL's Institute of Zoology, UCL and Queen Mary University of London published today in Global Change Biology.

A group of parents in San Francisco are rallying around a second-grade teacher with breast cancer who was required to pay for her classroom's substitute teacher while she is on medical leave. The parents at Glen Park Elementary School were stunned to learn that the teacher's paycheck was being docked $195 for each day she is out ill with the disease.

Instagram will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false information about vaccines, the company said today. Starting today, the company will effectively begin blocking access to hashtags that return misinformation designed to dissuade people from getting vaccinated. Instagram made the announcement at an event for press in San Francisco on Thursday.

We’re surrounded by plastics for much of our lives. Plastics are cheap and easy to make, they’re often incredibly durable and they last just about forever. Unfortunately, those upsides are also terrible news for the environment, as plastic waste continues to pile up despite recycling efforts and public awareness campaigns.

Hemanth Kappanna might seem like just another victim of corporate restructuring, a foreign worker whose skills were no longer needed, a middle-aged man with dashed American dreams. But Mr. Kappanna, an engineer born in India who was laid off by General Motors in February, changed automotive history. In 2013, he was part of a small team of engineering students in West Virginia whose research helped expose Volkswagen’s decade-long conspiracy to lie about its diesel cars’ emissions.

The new (and unusual) trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home that was released Monday offered the first glimpse of a Marvel superhero since the momentous events of Avengers: Endgame and the result is the biggest digital launch in the history of Sony Pictures Entertainment: 135.2 million views in 24 hours. The Columbia Pictures franchise starring Tom Holland as Spider-Man already held Sony’s 24-hour record (130 million views) set in January by the Far From Home teaser trailer.