A middle-schooler on spring break is bringing home some pretty big treasures. Avery Fauth found a megalodon shark tooth on the beach in North Topsail Monday. The megalodon went extinct millions of years ago and was the largest shark ever documented. ...

Your favorite classic video games are getting a killer makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders. Most game updates require teams of designers and coders working for months or even years, accord ...

The devastating blaze at the 850-year-old cathedral in Paris is now under control. The fact that its interior and exterior have been digitally 3D-mapped means the iconic building could be restored to its former glory. The scans: An exact digital repl ...

Julian Assange, who had been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven years, was arrested Thursday morning after the country’s president rescinded the WikiLeaks founder’s asylum status. Assange’s eviction has caused an uproar across the g ...

Just in time for Tax Day, the for-profit tax preparation industry is about to realize one of its long-sought goals. Congressional Democrats and Republicans are moving to permanently bar the IRS from creating a free electronic tax filing system. Last ...

Japan has an increasing percentage of young adults with no history of heterosexual vaginal intercourse. Public health experts at the University of Tokyo completed the most detailed analysis of national fertility survey data to date to understand tren ...

Emily Coxhead is the creator of the Happy Newspaper and quite possibly the most smiley person on the planet. Her publication, which subscribers get every three months, includes only positive news stories. She came up with the idea for the paper after ...

Borderlands 3 wasn’t the only looty shooty announcement Gearbox and publisher 2K had lined up today. They also announced yet another re-release of the original trilogy (including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel), this time with a few technical improvemen ...

Humans can make fresh brain cells until they are well into their 90s, but the production of new neurons falls in those with Alzheimer’s, even when the disease has recently taken hold, scientists have found. The findings may help doctors to diagnose A ...

This year, in the dead of winter, America’s wild reindeer went extinct in the contiguous United States. After years of dwindling, the last remaining herd of caribou known to roam between Canada and the Pacific Northwest states of Idaho and Washington ...

The real risks from chemicals in our food—for farmworkers and children, in particular—are being ignored.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a directive centralizing all military space functions under a new Space Force, which will be overseen by the Department of the Air Force. While it is technically up to Congress to approve the creation of the S ...

Most of us have heard the stories: the Oxford University study that claims that 35% of jobs will be lost to automation, or the wild-eyed hyper-utopians who claim that a new era of bio-communism will inexorably emerge from the age of machine learning. ...

The former host of Fear Factor is now the Larry King of the Intellectual Dark Web.

A lot of information has been trickling out about the future of Warner Bros.’ DC comics film franchise—not least of which is the fresh news that WB C.E.O. Kevin Tsujihara is resigning in disgrace, following a report about some scandalous text message ...

Captain Marvel raced higher, further and/or faster over its second weekend, topping the global box office yet again and clearing a handful of milestones in the process. The MCU flick earned another $69.3 million in North America, a drop of 55% from i ...

Happy π day! We now know the first 31.4 trillion digits of the tastiest mathematical constant

In the century and a bit since its founding in 1889, Nintendo has made playing cards, designed toys, hired out taxis and briefly run love hotels, but it is the last 40 years or so that have made it a cultural icon. Having dabbled in the video games b ...

In what could be a significant uplift for the most famous digital asset, Bitcoin (BTC), earlier in the week, one certain Marc Faber announced that he is willing to give the digital asset a try after being a bitcoin skeptic for nearly a year. Accordin ...

Offices and tiny apartments could be transformed by the work of Boston University researchers, who recently unveiled an “acoustic metamaterial” that blocks all sound.