Particle colliders have a huge, seldom discussed problem when trying to record experimental data. Solving it could help us find ground breaking new physics and give us a more reliable internet.

To address income inequality, economists and philosophers keep coming up with the same ideas, most of which involve resurrecting heavy-handed control economies and adding computers.

As 2018 winds down, it's time to take a quick look back at what happened this year before we ring in the new one...

Weird Things has returned, but because this hiatus was so different, so is the comeback. This site is changing in new and very important ways to tackle the year ahead.

While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it's upending the economic models on which development experts rely...

Hyperloop designers are dreaming big, which is admirable. What's less admirable is their failure to dream of practical solutions to real world problems.

According to researchers and experts, emojis aren't replacing the written word, they're just helping us understand the emotional context in which that written word was deployed.

What do sex workers, psychologists, and engineers think about futurists' and pundits' ideas of sci-fi style robot brothels to help angry celibate men?

When the internet really doesn't like you, there isn't much you can do but get better. Just don't tell that to angry aging lawmakers. They will refuse to believe you.

Some Canadians are trying to save cashier jobs. But their phones and cheap, proven technology is poised to eliminate having to check out altogether.

We should take the gig economy's rapid growth and global impact as a warning that we need to make some major changes, and we need to make them very quickly.

Voting online would be easy and convenient for millions of voters. But won't solve big problems and we already have an almost equally convenient way to cast your ballot.

Imagine a computer the size of a solar system, powered by a star and built for speed. It sounds impressive, but it may not be as good of an idea as it may seem.

American fighter jets aren't as combat ready as the military wants them to be. But the biggest challenge to meeting readiness goals aren't older airframes. Some of the newest and most capable fighters are looking a little iffy...

Kissinger's concerns about machines displacing human curiosity and turning our brains into useless, gray jelly unsuccessfully mine the same territory as many other technophobes with roughly the same results.