The start of a new experiment for a new era of blogging.

Yuri Milner wants to explore Alpha Centauri with a tiny spaceship propelled by the biggest and most powerful laser cannon ever built. That may be a lot harder than it sounds.

Buckle up for a classic DARPA mass brainwashing/mind control conspiracy with an identity theft twist...

When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.

Baby Boomers are very upset with Millennials for trying to make work more meaningful and comfortable after watching them suffer.

Tenure is not a magical keep-your-job-forever-no-matter-what card. It's vital protection for scientists whose research might not sit well with ideologues and partisan tribalists on college boards.

We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.

George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...

Universal Basic Income seems like a compassionate, forward-looking idea. But in reality, it's little more than a band aid that needs a lot more thought.

A project to replicate studies it found problematic is running into its own replication problems and not following experimental designs.

Global warming is making tornado outbreaks more unpredictable and pushing them to extremes.

The quest for a better, more accurate credit score is getting way out of control, especially in China.

Reinventing the wheel is a common refrain for doing something unnecessary. But what if you really can make a better wheel like Goodyear is trying to do?

Peer review and editorial input at PLOS ONE are in trouble and scientists are very, very upset.

Fast radio bursts get even more mysterious with new detections and point to a new culprit: magnetically supercharged neutron stars.