Tesla is way ahead of the competition, but it's not because others can't build EVs. It has much more to do with Tesla's laser-focus on battery tech and production.

We keep getting older, the games stay the same (and science backs that up).

The tragic story of a family ravaged by the U.S. immigration system.

In a lawsuit on Thursday, the city attorney said tracking was used not just for local forecasts but also for commercial purposes like targeted marketing.

Alphabet Inc's Google unit won approval from U.S. regulators to deploy a ra...

A species of duck thought to have been wiped out a decade ago is re-released at a lake in Madagascar.

Death was the great leveller, but new life-extension technologies will widen the gap between the haves and havenots

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Half a century later, 1968 continues to resonate as a landmark year for rock, pop and soul — in part, say musicians who were there in the studio, because artists were trying things no one had before.

On Friday, Marriott International announced a system breach that has affected approximately 500 million customers, with stolen information including names, credit card numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, and passport numbers. The breach is one of the largest in history, after recent Yahoo breaches that compromised the accounts of nearly three billion customers.

Humans can do a lot with a little context. If you see a picture of a toilet, you’ll know it’s probably flanked by a bathtub and sink. The picture didn’t include any of that stuff, but the human brain has a knack for filling in missing pieces. And now thanks to Google DeepMind computer scientists, so does artificial intelligence. In a paper published in Science Magazine in June, the company described how it created a Generative Query Network (GQN) that can see and imagine almost like a human.

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object ever visited.

The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.

Dr. Roberts worked with other engineers to create the underpinnings of the Arpanet, making many crucial decisions. But his work did not make him rich.

Just a few short days after her daring run down Route 80, recently rescued Brianna the cow gave birth to a female calf Saturday afternoon. Brianna fell 8 feet out of the second level of a truck headed to a Paterson slaughterhouse around 2:45 a.m. on Thursday night. She wandered around the highway until Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue came to corral her.

Children naturally want to help at a very early age—but many families wait to conscript them until that desire has faded.

The Chinese scientist who shocked the world with claims of creating the first genetically engineered babies is being detained in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a report in The New York Times. 

Adorable babies and cute puppies can make us happy. But researchers say their cuteness can be so overwhelming that it unleashes some ugly thoughts.

I never intended to make videogames about my brother. But creating videogames became the way in which I tried to make sense of his death.

The first season of The Punisher saw the Marvel vigilante going up against a corrupt CIA...

My belief in God didn't spontaneously combust—it faded. I lost my virginity at 16. I stopped going to church. I snuck out past curfew. As punishment, my mom made me memorize Bible verses, and I recited them like recipes. I wasn't the only kid who stopped believing. A record number of young Americans (35 percent) report no religious affiliation, even though 91 percent of us grew up in religiously affiliated households.

Your main feed now feels a lot more like stories.

Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London.

What started 20 years ago in Nanaimo, B.C. spawned hit songs, worldwide LOLs and a giant hairball of drama.

“Zircon” would likely be unstoppable by today’s cutting edge air defenses.

A natural limestone monolith located at the village of Katskhi in the western Georgian region of Imereti.

A giant plume of smoke exploded into the night sky on Thursday night in Queens, causing people across New York City to gawk in awe.

Cutting caffeine but love the taste of coffee? Dandelion tea is your answer. Learn how to make dandelion tea out of roots, flowers, and leaves.

The New York Times obtained more than a thousand pages of internal guidelines. They shed light on how Facebook decides what should be kept off the platform.