DARPA, the Department of Defense's research arm, is paying scientists to invent ways to instantly read soldiers' minds using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams. The end goal? Thought-controlled weapons, like swarms of drones that someone sends to the skies with a single thought or the ability to beam images from one brain to another.

The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.

Data from the blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads.

A century of research later, and we're still not sure what causes it

Paleobotanist Scott Wing stands in wintry Wyoming badlands, where alligators swam 56 million years ago.

On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make

It's a feeling of extreme work stress that's long been embedded in the cultural lexicon, and now it might be codified in your medical records as well.

The U.S. military plans to analyze 350 billion social-media posts from around the world to help it track how popular movements evolve.

On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums. Standing in front of the classroom at Espoo Adult Education Centre, Jussi Toivanen worked his way through his PowerPoint presentation. A slide titled “Have you been hit by the Russian troll army?” included a checklist of methods used to deceive readers on social media: image and video manipulations, half-truths, intimidation and false profiles.

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Facebook's former security chief says Mark Zuckerberg has amassed too much power and should resign as chief executive officer of the social networking giant. "There's a legit argument that he has too much power," Alex Stamos said at the Collision Conference in Toronto on Tuesday. "He needs to give up some of that power. If I was him, I would go hire a new CEO for the company."

A long list of potentially harmful ingredients banned in the EU are legally allowed in the US due to historically relaxed regulations

Super-high-speed camera produces a film consisting of 60 consecutive frames.

The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.

We’re bringing a fresh new design to Search, helping you more easily find the information you’re looking for.

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University of Göttingen, and the Sonneberg Observatory have discovered 18 Earth-sized planets beyond the solar system. The worlds are so small that previous surveys had overlooked them. One of them is one of the smallest known so far; another one could offer conditions friendly to life. The researchers re-analyzed a part of the data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope with a new and more sensitive method that they developed.

Satellite data plus artificial intelligence equals no place to hide.

In a quiet corner of my high school’s study room in 2009, I booted up my busted laptop while making sure nobody could peer over...

The piece of space dust put on a spectacular show in the night sky of South Australia.

Morehouse College, the private, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King among its alumni, expects its attendees to aspire to greatness. Now, many in the graduating class of 2019 can do so immediately, no matter the cost.

A long line of legal experts say the American Law Institute proposal would make an already huge problem dramatically worse.

The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted Wikileaks' Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, the first time a publisher has been charged for revealing classified information.

Amazon has been embroiled in a 7-year dispute with Brazil and Peru over the domain name. By Matt Binder.

A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition.

Pluto may harbour an ocean that’s kept liquid by an extra layer of gas molecules trapped in the ice at the base of its frigid shell

Thirty years after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, radiation is still turning up in some unexpected places: for instance, in the wild boars tramping through the...

If the world’s second biggest manufacturer has to fork its own Android OS and app ecosystem, Google may be in trouble in the long run.

The U.S. has blacklisted Huawei and Google has pulled its Android license, but the company has a backup plan years in the making.

Navy F-18 fighter jets have encountered Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon — once commonly referred to as UFOs — off the East Coast of the United States.