Far too much of what passes for forensic science in courtrooms fails to meet basic scientific standards while sending people to jail. And those who could fix this problem are refusing to help us.

A star named V883 Ori is going through a growth spurt, and as it does, it's showing us just how abundant the building blocks of life might be throughout the universe.

If you're in a creative, artistic industry, relying on your looks and presence to make a living, computers couldn't possibly come for your job, right? Actually, they can, and here's how.

The ancient inhabitants of the Channel Islands suffered an unexplained and serious decline in health some 5,000 years ago. Scientists are still not sure why.

Today's office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop "hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you're dead" attitude. It's not just socially toxic. It's damaging to your health and psyche.

As recreational drugs show promise in medical, and possibly professional settings, research is being held back by laws crafted around vindictive politics rather than science.

Mars One was an impossible dream. No, literally. As in not possible and could never happen. Now the company is bankrupt and its mission plans abandoned, which is really for the best.

Threatened by the open, permissive architecture of the internet, Russia is doing a dry run at building its own. If it succeeds, the effects on the global economy and geopolitics would be far-reaching and unsettling.

Wealth and power don't just change how you live and your priorities. They also change how your mind works in disconcerting ways.

Environmental groups have been ringing the alarm about plastic waste filling oceans and landfills for decades, and the general public is finally paying attention. But do we have real solutions to this problem?

Before you get your DNA tested, remember that most of the baseline samples used to process your genome only come from three countries and your reports will feature a lot of asterisks.

If you imagine galaxies as tranquil clouds of gas and dust, lit up by billions of pinpoints of light, a 3D map of the Milky Way and the details behind it will show you otherwise.

Paradoxically, we're both closer and farther from zooming across the galaxy than you might think…

Politicians and the public want short-term solutions to the opioid epidemic. But they aren't tackling its root cause: legitimate chronic pain.

Crime and a lack of impulse control go hand in hand. Now, there may be a way to activate that impulse control with an electric current. But we'll need to be careful how we use it.