Playing to the intelligent design mob, Mike Pence is simply spinning words in his war on evolutionary biology

Theo Jansen is part-artist, part-mad scientist. From PVC piping, he builds fantastical creatures that feed only on the wind: propelled by the movement of the air around them, his many-legged Strandbeest are free to roam the countryside and beaches ar ...

Recent progress in AI has been remarkable. While this is attributed to several factors, one often overlooked contribution is the use of ideas from experimental and theoretical neuroscience. We argue that if we are to continue to make rapid advances, ...

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine, organized the ninth annual contest for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year. They have recently published the shortlisted images for 2017 ...

Magical thinking meets willful ignorance at closed meeting

Poitras's latest film shows you can get too involved with your subject.

Call it an outbreak of stupidity.

After just three weeks of development, worker bees emerge from their brood cells fully formed, flying out to begin supporting their hive. In a stunning high-definition time-lapse video, the US photographer Anand Varma follows the bee's stages of ...

Dev bounces back with 'fair enough' as rc3 for 4.13 lands

In defence of 'cryptozoologists': we have a lot to learn from their curiosity and sense of wonder.

The FDA wants to regulate animals altered using the gene-editing technique CRISPR.

Personalised, interactive data visualisation of the deadliest diseases and biggest health breakthroughs in a lifetime. Brought to you by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mosaic by Wellcome. Made by Beyond Words Studio.

Washington vowed Saturday it would it "work closely with our friends and Allies" after US lawmakers passed sanctions on Russia that upset some European nations fearful that it could hit their businesses.

Cofounder brings us up to date on network status

Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed. Morten L Kringelbach and his colleagues at the University of Oxford recently described cuteness as ‘one of the most basic and powerful forces shaping our beha ...

The world’s most valuable company appears to have pulled down the apps amid China’s deepening crackdown on tools that evade internet controls.

After hints leaked out on Twitter, researchers made last-minute decision to reveal what might be the first discovery of a satellite outside our Solar System.

A new report shows that Toronto is North America’s fastest-growing tech market. The fourth largest city in North America is becoming a leader in all things technology and innovation.

At the National Restaurant Association, many of the hot technology companies are selling surveillance, not supper.

A snail woke up in a museum one day...