NASA's Cassini spacecraft has managed to capture the highest resolution movie yet of Saturn's hexagon, a six-sided jet stream around the gassy planet's north pole, and the resulting GIF is amazing. For contrast, this version, from the ...

After decades of prohibition, research is illuminating new uses for some illegal drugs.

Neetzan Zimmerman doesn't like to be called a machine. That word implies something cold and inhuman about how he works, and Mr. Zimmerman believes that what makes him so good at his job is precisely the opposite sensibility: Unlike a computer, h ...

Pictures of food. Snapping photos of meals is one of the less expected viral social media trends. That megaburger, the cheesy burrito, the strawberry shortcake, captured forever as an object of desire.

Councillors in Berlin have voted to launch the country's first cannabis cafe in their district. But some hurdles remain, it's reported.

Shoppers won't be lining up for Thanksgiving Day deals at stores in Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts. They can't. It's the legacy of so-called "blue laws," which prohibit large supermarkets, big box stores and department ...

A Coin is the same length and width as a standard credit card, and it’s nearly as narrow. But inside, you’ll find paper-thin circuitry that lets you spend money associated with all the cards that sit in your wallet today. With a nearly flat button, y ...

When it comes to convicting accused criminals, we tend to think of scientific evidence as the gold standard. Witnesses can get things wrong, memories can fail, but by God a DNA match is a DNA match, right?

Brazil's World Cup preparations suffered a deadly setback on Wednesday when a crane collapsed, killing two building workers at the São Paulo stadium that is due to host the opening match.

The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to conclude a sentence, but to announce “I am not hap ...

The monster gamma ray burst happened only a quarter of the universe away, which scientists say makes it one of the best chances to observe a collapsing star ever.

The Texas oilman who inspired J.R. Ewing once wanted to give millionaires seven extra votes. We put his modest proposal to the test.

Experiments on mice are widely used to help determine which new cancer therapies stand a good chance of working in human patients. Such studies are not perfect and, all too often, what works in a rodent produces little or no benefit in people. This h ...

A Miami convenience store owner is fed up with his employees and customers being allegedly harassed by police. So he installs surveillance video to get evidence against the local cops.

Facebook has had wild success with its push into emerging markets. Now Jana CEO Nathan Eagle is predicting that it will only be months before India supplants the US and becomes Facebook’s largest market in terms of users.

The Industrial Revolution overturned thousands of years of cottage industry by mass-producing goods at a lower price. The current advanced manufacturing revolution defies conventional wisdom by delivering smaller production runs at lower cost than l ...

Ashton Kutcher faced off with retail giant Walmart in a vigorous debate on Twitter over their notoriously low wages earlier today. Kutcher initiated the battle by tweeting about the disheartening news of an Ohio Walmart that took up an employee-to-em ...

North Korea may have detained an elderly U.S. man last month who entered the country on a tourist visa, Kyodo News Service said on Wednesday, citing an unnamed diplomatic source.

As many of the devastating stories and photos of typhoon-wrecked Philippines show, one of the most pressing problems of the Philippines crisis is the lack of toilets and the collapse of water systems.

The inventor of the Google Glass Sunshade says his motivation was to make it easier to see the Glass graphics when in sunshine. Coincidentally, it also covers up the light that tells others the glasses are in use.