Interaction with robots on a regular basis has the potential to blur some important lines when it comes to dealing with the world around us. But the good news is that our machines can still enforce them.

If you like your tea nice and hot, you may be worried about misleading popular science headlines telling you that you're doubling your risk of cancer. You're not. But you'll still want to pay attention to the research.

In today's Gilded Age with global warming, advocacy for socialism is on the rise, framed as a requirement to save our planet. But the idea that socialism can save us from ourselves has been tried before. It ended badly.

A new study about BDSM practitioners confirms they're generally happier with their sex lives and relationships. But there's a twist. Not all of them are equally satisfied.

Far from being a high precision for computing your way through life, brains are messy and function more on recognition and guesswork, and understanding that is important for the future of medicine.

If you want to explore our solar system, you need to prepare for multi-year journeys. But a new discovery in nanoscale engineering could help cut the travel time between worlds.

Nuclear energy easily whips up public panic thanks to the coverage of incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. But fear and media hype have overshadowed two basic facts: nuclear power works, and we need it more than ever.

NASA appears to be sick and tired of having to wait until the mid-2020s to return to the Moon on a future rocket that will be inferior to the private ones already flying, and easily lapped by ones currently being built.

We need a blockchain for ethical, friendly artificial intelligence about as much as a fish needs an umbrella. But in true Singularitarian fashion, one is being proposed.

It may be tempting to use our nuclear warheads to save the planet from rogue space rocks instead of pointing them at each other, it would be a waste of perfectly good nukes.

It's not your imagination, social media and product rankings are being gamed with very obvious tricks tech companies are refusing to stop.

Perhaps the worst thing about Theranos is not the lies, the fraud, or the failure. It's that the company and its portable lab could have been salvaged and improved lives if its CEO didn't drown in her own hype.

Another month, another case to remind us that investing in the economic Wild West has real consequences for thousands of people.

Intelligent life on Earth may owe its existence to an ancient virus which inserted its genetic code and machinery into early tetrapods and now helps their neurons talk to each other.

Experts are worried we're ceding too many decisions to recommendation algorithms and are on a slippery slope to exploitation and learned helplessness. In reality, we'd be lost and very frustrated without them.