An entrepreneur builds a one-metre-long stretch of motorway to protest about poor road infrastructure.

President Vladimir Putin signed the new law, which allows punishment of individuals with fines and jail time for the spread of "fake news."

In a study of senior computer science majors in the U.S., China, India, and Russia, U.S. students are tops in skills, if not in gross numbers

When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? By Matt Taibbi.

The fireball is the second most powerful in 30 years and the biggest since Chelyabinsk in 2013.

Weird-looking robots are the best robots.

No more partying like it's 2003-2015 on the social network.

Sill quote Seinfeld on the daily? Cool, it's only been off the air for more than 20 years. If you're still living in the 90s, this list is for you.

Who will join the eggstagram olympics next?

A team from the Department of Psychological Medicine and Department of Biochemistry at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that seniors who consume more than two standard portions of mushrooms weekly may have 50% reduced odds of having mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Dogs can act like illness psychics.

Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers

A plant virus distributes its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce, even if they infect different cells.

New data shows Japanese citizens prefer whale watching to whale meat.

With an analysis of DNA from nearly 300 fossilized remains, scientists are peering into human prehistory in the region.

As Beto O'Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.

How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class.

The police said one person was in custody, but they were unsure if there were other people involved.

Or so says a new report for Britain’s government

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

A team of scientists just demonstrated something that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth on average.

Now while I can understand the attitudes of most people when it comes to weed in that it’s just some stoner thing. Getting stoned is fun and stoners tend to have a lot of weed-nerds among them talking about long lost strains and breeding lines they would love to try, or a medical thing since it does help with a plethora of conditions or all about a particular branding (which I’ve always thought is all bollocks anyway), this subject has always been far bigger for me.

Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is a purely fabricated figure based on the common-sense assumption that people will generally click through anything that gets in the way of perming the task they set out to complete in the first place). And honestly, how on earth is your average person going to make an informed decision.

We know they're smart, but there's still a lot we don't know.

In a new study, researchers at the Wolf Science Center in Vienna, Austria demonstrated that human-raised wolves are just as successful as trained dogs at working with humans to solve cooperative tasks, suggesting that dogs' well-known ability to cooperate with humans did not arise purely from domestication.

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

Facial recognition can log you into your iPhone, track criminals through crowds and identify loyal customers in stores. The technology — which is imperfect but improving rapidly — is based on algorithms that learn how to recognize human faces and the hundreds of ways in which each one is unique.

The actresses allegedly paid thousands of dollars to help their children gain admission into elite universities

Viking heritage is imprinted into Norway’s 1,700 wild and westernmost isles that lie at the opening of the North Sea – where one islander has devoted his life to preserving the past.