Scientists are reporting significant progress toward creating "homo minutus" -- a benchtop human. Researchers have successfully developed and analyzed a liver human organ construct that responds to exposure to a toxic chemical much like a real liver.

Just before the economic collapse in 2008, the Canadian province of British Columbia passed a tax on carbon. Five years later, it's a case study in smart climate policy.

It would have been DEEPLY satisfying for a beloved Kickstarter to IPO and the best chance we've seen at that just vanished.

The next big thing in tech is to change the very nature of the way you experience reality, as Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR suggests. Does the...

Poland has unveiled it’s concept for the next generation PL-01 stealth tank, which incorporates technology that makes it invisible to enemy thermal imaging.

King Digital Entertainment officially began life as a publicly traded company on Wednesday, but plunged below its initial pricing levels on the New York Stock Exchange, after weeks of breathless publicity. On Tuesday, the maker of the addictive mobile game "Candy Crush" priced its shares at $22.50 after the U.S. markets closed. The gaming company, listed as "KING" on the Big Board, issued 22.2 million shares, giving the initial public offering (IPO) an initial value of just under $500 million.

Game of Thrones meets House of Cards in Frank Underwood's new hit "House of Thrones." Who lives? Who dies? You got to watch this toasty video to find out! Curated entertainment, straight from the toaster. Quiznos and Toasty TV sets life on fire and burns down the status quo, bringing you the hottest in music, film, art and entertainment.

Man forgets a 100k boat for years, thinking he had sold it. He hadn't.

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand.

A look at these tree houses and you will realize that it is never too late to live your childhood dreams … I think many of us would have liked a tree house like this in our childhood, well now we can see them and dream that we live in one of these tree houses …

Federal investigators tell Scott Pelley the inside story of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt a year after the infamous act of terror

A team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, led by materials scientist Jens Bauer, have a new 3D printing material which has...

Seven million people died as a result of air pollution in 2012, the World Health Organization estimates.

Is the cheese ball reminiscent of something your mom would have pulled out for a potluck years ago? You’re not alone. Cheese balls were totally a thing in the '80s. They've made their rounds, and they’re back and better than ever.

The Internet Archive has begun the long, grueling process of uploading to the Internet 40,000 tapes of television that a woman named Marion Stokes...

What they don’t tell you about reality shows is that the people are real, but the situations are totally not. Many times, a “star” - or main character - is found, and then an entire show is built around this charismatic or weird person. There may be legit members of their entourage, or such side characters can be hired to fill out the story.

In 'How Do We Know How Old The Sun Is?' ROG astronomer Brendan explains how we determine the age of our Solar System from space rocks and how we can work out how long the Sun has left before it engulfs the inner planets.

On an early spring evening, two armored Miami-Dade police vehicles carrying 16 helmeted officers thundered into a middle-class Miami Lakes neighborhood for a raid on a suspected pot dealer. About 10 seconds after the uniformed officers banged a sledgehammer on his front door and forced it open with a crowbar, Michael Santana would be dead.

Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it's only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.

You would think by now we would have exhausted the mysteries of Albert Einstein. As perhaps the most famous scientist in history, nearly every idea he expressed and every thing he did has been studied, commented on, written about. Yet on his 135th birthday (born March 14, 1879) there are still new details coming out–details that offer insight both into the workings of Einstein’s mind, and into the biggest mysteries of the cosmos.

The United States and United Kingdom achieved the dubious honor of being branded “Enemies of the Internet” for the first time. Watchdog group Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on which countries restrict access to the internet through censorship and surveillance this week.

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Facebook streamlined PHP, made it better, and that Hack was now the official language running the site used by 1.2 billion users.

The television continues to evolve, but the remote control is stuck in limbo.

Thanks to the internet, it has never been easier to steal other people's work. There's also a high risk you'll be found out. So why do it? Rhodri Marsden goes in search of a little originality

The toughest creature on Earth: the tardigrade. Also known as the water bear (because it looks like an adorable little many-legged bear), this exceedingly tiny critter has an incredible resistance to just about everything. Go ahead and boil it, freeze it, irradiate it, and toss it into the vacuum of space — it won’t die. If it were big enough to eat a glass sandwich, it probably could survive that too.

The stumpy hills are a nice touch. Photograph by Thierry Bornier.

National and regional dealership associations have it in for Tesla Motors. For the past few years the organizations have been pushing lawmakers – to whom, it bears mentioning, they have made generous financial contributions – for legislation that would make it difficult for the Californian automaker to continue with its direct-to-consumer, company-store sales model.

How the martyred king of gangsta rap, a bisexual LSD-touting beat poet, and a reclusive alcoholic painter inspire a Moscow apparatchik.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk are investing $40 million into an artificial intelligence company called Vicarious alongside actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, reports the Wall Street Journal. Vicarious is a company aiming to replicate the human neocortex as computer code. The neocortex is the rather important part of your brain that "sees, controls the body, understands language, and does math."