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Back in 2012, Voyager 1 boldly went where no spacecraft has ever gone before--it crossed out of the influence of our Sun and into the...

After watching the darkly humorous short film L1ZY (which deals with an insidious digital home assistant that goes a little too...

Back in 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo won the "Match of the Century" against Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol, conquering one of the last bastions...

If you thought the face of AI oppression was going to take the form of robots going down the street killing people (as Elon Musk...

When someone says "this new (blank) will allow you to eat anything you want without gaining weight!", it's usually one of two...

Looks like the US military is doubling down on its new toys--on the heels of the announcement that Microsoft has won a $480 million...

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...

Since its discovery by Robert Weryk back in October of 2017, the cannoli-shaped asteroid named ʻOumuamua has baffled the...

In the wake of a recent study claiming that filling the atmosphere with a thin cloud of sulfur oxide could block enough of the Sun's...

Over the years, we've covered some stuff that seemed straight out of a cyberpunk novel, from technology that may allow you to control...

Professor and NASA researcher Silvano Colombano's recent "paper" on alien life has been misrepresented by various news outlets (as...

When it comes to prospective UFO sightings, there are a couple criteria that elevates a video from "probably a lens flare" to "huh,...

We've seen some pretty crazy pieces of military hardware over the past few years, from a high-tech 'Boba Fett' helmet used by UK...

The UK is testing a new system that sounds suspiciously like Minority Report, sans the watery tank full of bald women hooked up to...

If you thought 1997's Face/Off was mostly sci-fi, we have some news for you: a team of surgeons at NYU Langone recently announced...

When you think of a friendly, sphere-shaped companion robot for space travel, we wouldn't blame you for imagining something like BB-8...

If you haven't heard yet, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui recently claimed to have created the first genetically altered...

If you grew up with Pixar movies, you probably remember those charming little shorts, like Geri's Game and Knick Knack. As short...

We've heard of bizarre burial practices in 5th century Italy where the dead were laid to rest with rocks in their mouths so that if...

At approximately 12:00 pm EST NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will initiate its final descent on Bennu, coming within twelve miles of...