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.

Now that Opportunity's mission is complete, many wistfully lament about "bringing our robot home." There's just one problem: it's already home.

A new Danish study confirms that being surrounded by greenery improves mental health. As more of us move into rapidly growing cities and aim to explore space, we need to plan for a greener future.

Buckle up steampunk enthusiasts, it turns out that not only are steam-powered space probes possible, they might be perfect for hopping between comets and asteroids on research and mining missions.

After more than a decade, doctors think they were finally able to replicate the case of the Berlin patient, the only man known to be cured of HIV. But the London patient offers more questions than answers.

The American military may be the best in the world, but too often, it's fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century ideas. Its foreign counterparts have an opportunity to master the wars of the future.

In the next ten years or so, your internet experience will be the same as today. But that internet may be built on complex quantum interactions instead of bits and bytes flying between routers and servers.

Super-Earths are often thought of as just bigger version of our own planet on steroids. But these worlds offer us amazing insights into everything from plate tectonics to planetary formation and classification.

If you think you know how gravity works, you're probably wrong. While we can explain what it does, figuring out how has been a multi-decade long exercise in frustration and dead ends.

Determining the tallest mountains on Earth seems like a fairly straightforward task, but it actually depends on which mountains you measure and how you measure them...

Gadgets connected to the internet and controlled by apps are everywhere, even in things that don't need to be linked global communication networks. Unfortunately, they're not working out well for us...

Asteroids and comet brought our planet water and the chemical precursors for life. But could they have also given rise to our continents and help set plate tectonics in motion?