Biohacking is the next big craze for those obsessed with taking charge of their health beyond just diet and exercise. But while it sounds like science, there's no evidence it actually works.

It's one thing to speculate about how evil vaccines are and dismiss the illnesses they're meant to prevent. But after seeing the effects of measles and whooping cough up close, parents and teenagers are losing their anti-vaxx attitudes.

Theoretical physicists seem ready to move on from looking at dark matter as unknown particles we've yet to discover, and consider it a side-effect of gravity at cosmic scales.

You might not care that that some places on Earth are seeing 75% declines in some insects. You really should. When they're gone completely, so are the ecosystems in which we grow our food.

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.