Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of "free-floating" planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. The results include four new discoveries ...

Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions…

From the archives: Open source MS-DOS alternative lives—but using it nearly killed me.

This groundbreaking exercise makes use of a hand-held device which provides resistance as the user breathes.

Doing React-like things without React.

Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.

A group from the New York University School of Medicine have designed a smart, closed-loop brain implant to detect and relieve bursts of pain in real time.

Some academics argue that unhappy elites lead to political instability

From “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” to “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” what do bestselling guides to self-improvement reveal about the United States?

Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, is racking up complaints from users who can’t access their cash. The company says it’s cracking down on an “extraordinary surge” in fraudulent deposits. That’s little consolation to customers caught in the fray.

Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European…

Ending a long-running mystery, a construction worker guided the police to the hiding place after admitting he had taken the works in a daring one-man raid on the National Gallery in Athens in 2012.

The Pentagon has announced a new direction for its enterprise cloud effort called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract.

Creation of hydrogen peroxide in situ could provide clean, drinkable water to communities in the poorest nations around the world.

Disclaimer: I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan. As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where t...

For years, the powers that be on Wall Street have toyed with questions about whether it would be feasible to move the stock market onto a blockchain, the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies.The innovators in the fast-moving world of decentralized…