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…

Scientists think they found a time capsule from Earth's earliest days buried just under the Moon's surface for the last 4.1 billion years.

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.

A tiny, roughly kilometer sized rock might not seem like much of a discovery, but it's an important confirmation of our models of planetary formation and solar system evolution.

Automation is responsible for most jobs lost in the industrial world and could replace as much as two thirds of the developing world's workforce. Why are we still pretending it's decades away?

Tracking the magnetic north pole has been a difficult task over the last few hundred years, and even today, in the age of computers and lasers, it hasn't gotten any easier as scientists were surprised by its rapid migration towards Asia.

Slowly but surely, violence in movies has been escalating, prompting recurring spasms of fear that a surge in violent crime will inevitably follow, yet violent crimes rates keep declining. Why?

On average, winters are getting warmer and milder across the Northern Hemisphere. So what's with all the sudden cold snaps hammering North America and Europe?

Australian lawmakers stunned the country's techies by passing a law requiring them to help law enforcement snoop on encrypted data on request, and putting e-commerce and basic digital security at risk.

A binary system observed by ALMA isn't wonky, it's the first example of an anomaly we only thought was possible until we saw it with our own eyes: a polar protoplanetary disk.

In a move straight of a Dickensian cyberpunk novel, a Chinese app alerts citizens if someone in debt is within 500 meters, and encourages spying on their spending habits.

A recent paper imagines a new explanation for the strange motions of Trans-Neptunian Objects observed by astronomers for the last 200 years, but it doesn't mean that we won't still search for Planet Nine.

Earthquakes might be both powerful and inevitable. But we have the tools to soften their blows, save millions of lives, and save billions when cleaning up after them.