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Quick, what's the most massive living organism on the planet? It's not the blue whale, or the African elephant. It's not even one of...

VR has been hailed as a lot of things: the next major video game platform, a new social networking platform, and even a rival to...

Artificial intelligence is getting better at driving cars and recognizing photos, but one of the things AI still struggles with is...

If someone asked you to draw an electron, what shape would your masterpiece take? Physicists recently used lasers in an experiment to...

You might have heard of the 'Devil's symphony,' the strange, unearthly combination of squeals, shrieks, and thunderous cracks caused...

Whether or not we know it, humans have been in the extinction business for tens of thousands of years, whether wiping out woolly...

When people talk about artificial intelligence taking human jobs, we didn't expect one of them to be "fortune cookie writer."...

No, you haven't stumbled across a mistakenly syndicated article from The Onion. We're apparently living in a timeline where the...

It must be hard to be an astronomer or astrophysicist--every week, a new discovery (like Swift J0243.6+6124) seems to challenge their...

Considering NASA has one of the most extensive carbon dioxide-monitoring programs on the planet and an entire website devoted to...

We may think of space as a vast, untouched frontier, but the truth is that there's already about 18 million pounds of junk floating...

There were a lot of things keeping Stephen Hawking awake at night, but among the top three were the imminent AI revolution, the...

When it's not teaching AI how to create fake photos that look totally real, Google and its associated companies are taking big strides...

Sending your DNA off to a genealogy company like 23 and Me and filling the gaps in your family tree has become a fascinating little...

If you thought the announcement of the first air-to-air drone kill or the unveiling of Russia's new bipedal military mech was cause...

If you went through public school in the last fifteen years, odds are that your math tests included a space for an answer and a...

At around 4:40 AM today, two astronauts set out to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Less than two minutes into that flight,...

Astrobiology has always been at the fringes of NASA's science programs, and the last time it tried to break into the big-time with the...

Mount Etna may not spew out as much lava as Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (which has been erupting for months), but it's not an eruption...

If you're not rich enough to buy a trip around the Moon with SpaceX (like Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa), the next best thing is...