Celebrity tapes and nudes used to be shocking scandals on which tabloids pounced. Today they're frequently glossed over and that may be thanks to the technology that now lives in our pockets.

If you want to get an idea of just how alien and bizarre an extraterrestrial might look like, consider the creatures that used to live right here on Earth some 500 million years ago.

No Child Left Behind's series of tests was supposed to help American education. It did the exact opposite.

There's a certain complacency implied by treating aging as a natural part of life that just needs to be taken in stride. It's time to change how we think about growing older.

The debate over whether Pluto is a planet, much less what constitutes a planet, is still raging in the scientific community.

Bureaucrats generally don't like creative, fair solutions to complicated problems, so it's no surprise they're making a mess of social activism on campus.

Researchers test a neural mesh that envelops the brain in electrodes without invasive, complex surgery in an exciting step forward in human-machine interfaces.

Doctors are already offering stem cells via injections and IV drips to treat complex soft tissue damage. But their treatments are far from being ready for prime time...

The world's biggest porn site wants to take adult entertainment to the final frontier and we should absolutely encourage them.

When you're trying to start carbon-based life, not just any carbon isotope will do and the one you need wouldn't even exist without a quirk of quantum mechanics.

Stingy academics inspired a new platform for those doing menial digital work, and not in a good way.

Studies into the health of workers and middle managers leads to the inescapable conclusion that today's work culture is making us miserable and unhealthy.

If taxpayers are going to pay for college, we'll have to make sure that a college education actually yields gainful employment.

A gay-conversion practice is being taken to court for fraud, catching its lawyers and PR consultants off guard as their stock talking points fail to connect.

Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.