Researchers foresee myriad benefits for humanity, but also acknowledge ethical issues

Most of the world knows Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.’s “Blurred Lines” as a half-forgotten hit song from 2013. The music industry remembers it as its worst nightmare. In the five years since a court ruled that “Blurred Lines” infringed on Marvin Gaye’s 1977 “Got to Give It Up,” demanding that Thicke and Williams fork over $5 million to the Gaye estate for straying too close to the older song’s “vibe,” the once-sleepy realm of music copyright law has turned into a minefield.

At one point, university officials had wanted to approve Epstein donations of up to $10 million.

A deep dive into FAA records offers a short list of suspects who have acquired the needed permits.

It was thought VR would be as common as televisions, but despite improvements it is yet to take off.

“People have to clock in and clock out even when going to the toilet and explain the reason why they were delayed, which is embarrassing and humiliating.”

New research provides evidence that psychedelic drugs produce enduring increases in people's sense of being connected to nature.

Inspired by the computing powers of biological cells, researchers have demonstrated a general-purpose computer that relies on only a handful of chemicals.

Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks.

A bluefin tuna sold for 193.2 million yen ($1.8 million) in the first auction of...

Employers will offer substances which enhance cognitive abilities, while the have-nots will be left open to more health risks than ever

Several years ago, I climbed Mt. Washington in Nevada to see the oldest complex life forms on Earth. Typically found at elevations higher than 3,000 meters, bristlecone pine trees can live for as long as five millennia. They do so by growing very slowly in arid environments that are too harsh for most other life forms.

Richard Kate Morgan has revealed that Netflix’s cyberpunk mystery Altered Carbon, will have five seasons. Set in a world where people can switch bodies on a whim, Altered Carbon is adapted from Morgan’s tri-series based on novel — Takeshi Kovacs — published in 2002.

The study comes after a series of New York Times articles published earlier this year about radicalization on Google-owned YouTube.

Six-man football was developed for small-town schools. But with football participation falling nationwide, the sport could be on its way to California.

Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.

Ground tests designed to validate the deployment of the parachutes that will be used on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars lander next year have started well at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. ESA’s ExoMars 2020 mission consists of the UK-built Rosalind Franklin rover, which will look for signs of past or present life, and the Russian Kazachok surface platform, which will monitor the local environment at the landing site.

This might be where Elon Musk is best able to make a lasting mark.

Groups of citizens regularly exercise the right to assemble, but too often American political and cultural leaders ignore it.

RuNet disconnection tests were successful, according to the Russian government.