Fascination with the story of Josefa predates the era of #MeToo and modern-day hostility toward anyone and anything Mexican. But in their own way, the residents of Downieville have long debated the role that Josefa’s gender and ethnicity played in he ...

NASA just appointed a new leader for its human spaceflight program, and he’s dead set on making sure the agency puts astronauts on the moon in 2024.

In a blog post, Google researchers detailed a machine learning model capable of classifying X-ray images with 'radiologist-level' accuracy.

"I’m the most sued podcaster and I love it."

Bottlenose dolphins found to have an even stronger right-side bias than humans

Hasta la vista, robot. New York City on Monday warned FedEx to ‘terminate’ any operation of its delivery robots in the Big Apple

They're not the world's tallest or longest bridges, but a string of humble river crossings sculpted from tree roots in India are engineering marvels that contain lessons for modern architects.

In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail MuZero, an algorithm that effectively teaches itself how to play Atari and board games.

The company supposedly stiffed workers without informing customers.

On October 1, Minnesota Public Radio's Cody Nelson published a really important story about student debt; on October 4, I summarized the article and linked to it here, crediting Nelson and MPR.

The story of one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history.

Former executives say Amazon, which last year spent $400 million fighting fraud and abuse, has prioritized its broad selection over anti-counterfeiting technologies and policies.

As Washington, DC, proposes a soda tax, it is hard to overstate the abject failure of soda taxes to deliver on their promised benefits.

The construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment, is now 60 percent complete

Plus: "Like the experts predicted back in 2016, we did end up heading down the dystopian path."

A neural network that teaches itself the laws of physics could help to solve quantum-mechanics mysteries.

Seeing the same doctor and having a dedicated care plan has a significant beneficial impact on people with a severe mental illness, a major study has found.

The new series will focus on House Targaryen and be set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones.

Adapting a beloved property is as delicate a task as it is unenviable. You have to justify the shift of mediums, make smart adjustments to the source material accordingly

OmniVision OV6948 makes it into Guinness Book of Records and will save lives in the hands of surgeons