Satirical articles about restaurants operated entirely by robots are starting to hit way too close to home...

Michael LaCour's groundbreaking study on how just talking to an LGBT person could change homophobic attitudes was a fraud. But why did it take so longer to uncover it and what does it mean for other researchers?

Even in the age of on-demand knowledge downloaded to a device in the palm of your hand, common misconceptions and urban legends persist.

American seniors are convinced that millennial life is just an orgy of constant casual sex. But research into the matter shows absolutely no evidence of this.

Unfortunately, the Higgs particle doesn't explain the origins of dark matter, sending cosmologists looking for new particles to help fill in the blanks.

Thanks to the Duggar scandals, we're getting a peek at what Quiverful literature says about premarital sex, and its contents are completely untethered from any semblance of reality.

An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.

Some activists want to see virtual crime punished by real world consequences. They do not want to go down that road and what it would entail.

Religious protections and exemptions have gone so far that in certain cases, neglecting and abusing children is legal as long as you claim there's a religious reason for it.

Tech companies are having a lot of trouble recruiting and keeping skilled coders, and the advice floating around the web is not helping them at all.

One good way to fight bacteria that have a resistance to antibiotics may be to remove their resistance to antibiotics...

Just because you can write an app without going to college, don't discount the value of a degree if you decide to seriously pursue computer science.

When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?

Philip Zimbardo is trying to make a career warning men about the crisis of masculinity (he can't define in concrete terms) caused by porn addiction (he cherry-picked into existence).

Particle physicists managed to confirm virtually everything about the Standard Model. Now they're stuck with very little wiggle room to explain some of the universe's oddest mysteries.