If you have a computer and a few spare moments, you can help search the cosmos for an elusive breed of black hole that astronomers once thought didn't exist.

When I was a teenager, my father and I shared books. We didn’t share the physical copy, at least not often—my dad was serving a ten-year sentence in California, and I was at school in Bath, England…

Some languages — like English — are tricky to pick up easily. Young children learning to read and write English often need to identify patterns in words to be able to read and spell them. For example, knowing the “Magic E” syllable pattern can allow a child to understand why an E at the end of a word like “rate” significantly alters the word’s sound from “rat.”

The Mars 2020 rover is starting to look like it could tackle the Red Planet. The intrepid vehicle is in the assembly phase (you can watch NASA build it live) and the team is rightfully proud of the work. So it's no surprise NASA workers snapped a heartwarming selfie to mark a major step in the build process.

New cars’ “infotainment systems” are a mess of dangerous touch screens and inscrutable icons. More knobs, please.

With the election approaching, lawmakers are facing up to the fact they need to do something about the explosion in manipulated media.

Women who flee Saudi Arabia expect to be chased. They expect their friends to be interviewed, their social media to be scoured, their passports to be frozen. They mostly do not expect Saudi government agents to hunt down the old box for their iPhone.

America's coal industry has already been left in the dust by natural gas. Now it's under immense pressure from the renewable energy boom.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 was one of the big surprises to emerge from Nintendo's E3 2019 press conference, and while the publisher didn't let too much slip during the Direct stream itself, it has now teased a little more information on the upcoming sequel.

Multiple sources tell ET that the actor maintains his innocence.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, you’ve probably heard a lot about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — but that is just one of several ways Russia is trying to undermine the US, CNN’s Jim Sciutto writes in his new book The Shadow War.

Produced the right way, hydrogen can be a cleaner, greener alternative to fossil fuels powering our transport and elsewhere. But too often that's not the case

Digital recruiting is leaving more of a forensic trail in discrimination cases. But a wave of litigation is running up against higher legal hurdles.

Hundreds of rare animal species take shelter in the 155-mile no man's land between North and South Korea

As its trading partners turn to clean energy, Australia needs to find an alternative to selling gas and coal. Hydrogen could be the answer

A YouTube star who tricked a homeless man into eating biscuits filled with toothpaste and then posted footage of the incident online has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay his victim €20,000 in “moral damages”. A judge in Barcelona also banned Kanghua Ren, better known as ReSet, from having any social media accounts for five years.

Avi Loeb discusses why we need to consider the possibility that the object was sent by aliens, the dangers of unscientific speculation, and what belief in an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has in common with faith in God.

My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.

Fans of classic Dungeons & Dragons RPGs are in for a treat: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights are all coming to Switch and other consoles for the first time later this year in their Enhanced Edition guises. Publisher Skybound Games is releasing the games in three bundles (well, two plus Neverwinter Nights) featuring all DLC and expansions, plus restored and even brand new content in the case of the Baldur's Gate pack.

Australian governments have slashed the legal protection of nature reserves in favour of business growth, a global study reveals. The country is one of 73 dropping the ball on land protection, according to the study, which was published in the journal Science on Friday.

Apex Legends has dropped out of the top 10 highest grossing games on PC for the first time since its launch, according to Nielsen-owned market research firm SuperData. The firm estimates Apex Legends earned $24m in April, down nearly three quarters from its February launch month earnings of $92m. Mighty fall of grace, particularly considering SuperData believes Apex Legends had the strongest start for a free-to-play title of all time.

A man who posted a Facebook message threatening to kill "as many girls as I see" in retaliation for years of romantic rejection was sentenced Thursday to up to five years in prison. Judge Christine Johnson's decision to keep Christopher W. Cleary, 27, of Denver, behind bars in Utah went against a recommendation from Cleary's attorney and prosecutors to sentence him to probation so he could be returned to Colorado to serve prison time there for probation violations.