The oceans may seem vast and indomitable, and yet humanity has found a way to spread its influence over them. New…

The Green New Deal is a massive proposal that aims to take on the climate crisis—the greatest threat humanity has…

Be it from a bad controller, an over-taxed computer, or troubles with a network connection, lag—also known as…

Last year was a very bad year for wildfire damage across the U.S., and it’s only going to get worse. One way to…

Here’s a joke for you: What has one horrible mouth and no butt? Your great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) grandpa,…

A striking, two-faced calf has become a bit of a local star the small town of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Lucky has …

Cupertino mayor Barry Chang is apparently not an Apple fanboy. In a fiery interview with The Guardian, Chang says he…

Siri let slip yesterday that Apple’s WWDC conference—the week-long exploration of Apple’s software development—would…

This is Mahabir Pun. Fed up with the fact that he had to hike for two days whenever he wanted to check his email, he…

In what sounds like a plot line from a BioShock game, a team of biologists has coaxed an animal into growing a new…

Northeastern University biologist Jonathan Tilly is certain he’s found egg-making stem cells in adult mice. If he’s…

You know the story of mammalian fertilization: millions of sperm enter the vagina, only one fertilizes the egg, more…

Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the…

The tuatara isn’t actually a lizard. It’s the last survivor of a 250 million year old group of reptiles that mostly…

Last week at Buzzfeed News, Dan Vergano described the surprising results of a paternity test–the first known case of…

A few months ago I wrote about a proposal to fix the housing crisis in San Francisco by building skinny apartments…

Today, a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics tied male homosexuality to…

From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to…

Facebook has announced that it’s teaming up with French-based satellite provider Eutelsat Communications to beam…