New Zealand is enticing people to join their growing tech scene by offering an expenses-paid trip to check out the country, get interviewed, and make a giant career move.  

Glacier McGlacierface? Not likely. NASA has set some classy themes that will guide the naming of geographical features of Pluto and its moons.  

Director Ezra Edelman just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 'O.J. Simpson: Made in America'. By deconstructing one scene, he gives insight into how truth and art must co-exist in documentary filmmaking.

But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]

New 3D images of a mouse brain reveal a neuron that encompasses the entire brain.

Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.

In a 2012 study, participants used a Ouija board to get in touch with their “second intelligence.”   

Handle, the latest robot from Google-backed Boston Dynamics, elicits both excitement and anxiety. The company's founder has described it as "nightmare-inducing." 

Human minds are all powered by the same organ, so why do we have such strong preferences and diverse favorite things? Bill Nye lets us in on an example from his life.

Phobos and Deimos may have had another, inner, much larger companion! “The larger inner moons fall back to Mars after about 5 million years due to the tidal pull of […]

How can we solve a problem like Malaria? One doctor has an idea: send in the mathematicians. 

A new report shows the marijuana industry is poised to have a major economic impact.

There’s only medicine that works and medicine that does not, writes Paul Offit.

Self-driving hobbyists and researchers can now build a self-driving vehicle for around $700. Utilizing free software and hardware plans from George Hotz's startup Comma, brave enthusiasts are crowdsourcing solutions as we move towards more autonomous vehicles.  

What happens up there directly affects life down here. From star-gazing to quantum mechanics, astronomy is one of humanity's great thruster engines of innovation.

If you don’t have pristine, dark skies, you might never connect to the Universe. But there’s hope. “Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment […]

A college course on how to recognize "bullshit" addresses fake news, memes, clickbaiting and misleading advertising. 

If you think we're talking about someone else, don't be so hasty. One study highlights how the vast majority of people choose ignorance over knowing. 

Risks abound for those plucky few willing to put their lives on the line to populate the Red Planet.   

A "forbidden research" conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions.