Johnson & Johnson says its Baby Powder is safe. But Reuters found its talc was sometimes tainted with asbestos, a fact it kept from regulators and the public.

Experts in the field give a hard-headed assessment of just how hard the technology is

Archaeologists in Egypt unveil the tomb of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years.

In downtown Providence, Rhode Island there is a large and prominent plot of land that sits on the bank of the Woonasquatucket River. In 1838, it was the home of the the Rhode Island State Prison. Later, the land housed the Continuing Education campus for…

There are five German exclaves in Belgium which are separated by a meters wide bicycle path from the rest of Germany. This is the story of the Vennbahn.

The deal is an elegant compromise, but falls short of bringing global warming under control.

You aren't about to buy NVIDIA's robotics chip, but it could be influential in the AI world.

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Abbey Meyers’ first son, David, was born in 1968. By the time David was two, Abbey noticed something was different about him. David’s face would twitch. He sometimes made involuntary noises. His arms flailed around out of control, so he could barely feed…

For about $200, you can build a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot with googly eyes

The building is a computer; the computer is a building: This week Paul Ford and Rich Ziade sit down with Bret Victor to talk to about Dynamicland — a non-profit that’s inventing a new computational medium, where people work together with real objects in the…

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Discover if magnets can replace springs in pogo sticks in our latest exploration of magnetic repulsion and mechanical innovation.

Imagine a business metric showing a sudden spike — is the spike real or is it a data quality problem? Analysts and Data Engineers today…

Haven't we reached Peak Minecraft? Not in my house.