Forty years after Life of Brian was first released, Nicholas Barber looks at why the Monty Python film was banned – and went on to become a box office hit.

Many U.S. municipalities are trying to bar new 5G cell sites from residential areas—in many cases citing health worries unsupported by scientific evidence—and causing clashes with telecoms and federal authorities.

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system's eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager mission's ...

The space agency is reportedly looking into an allegation against astronaut Anne McClain.

Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her six children—two of them adopted after being abandoned…

On faster MS-DOS systems, it wasn't entirely uncommon for applications built using Borland's Turbo Pascal to fail to start, and (before exiting back to the command prompt) to report a division by z...

The Privacy by Design Foundation develops IRMA: privacy-preserving, user friendly and secure authentication.

You can play reconstructions of ancient board games thanks to these scientists and their algorithms.

The experiment is over – read the recap here! Hey folks! 👋 I've already spoken to a few of you about this idea, but I'd like to share it with the broader community now that standard 14 has ...

A year ago I made this huge natural native saltwater ecosphere in a jar. It has had a lot of ups and downs, but to this day is still very successful. The ecosphere has housed crabs, starfish and a lot more and is currently still housing a lot of crustaceans…

A University of Kansas professor allegedly took $37,000 in U.S. government research dollars while hiding that he was also working for a Chinese university, according to a federal indictment on fraud charges.

Scores of people born through artificial insemination have learned from DNA tests that their biological fathers were the doctors who performed the procedure.

Contractors in Cork were expected to each listen to more than 1,000 recordings from Siri every shift - before Apple suspended the practice last month, according to an employee who had their contract abruptly terminated this week.

There is a misconception that Lisp is a dynamically typed language and doesn’t offer compile-time type checking. Lisp being the…