One of NASA's proposed missions would send a spacecraft to Venus on a suicide mission in order to study its atmosphere.

To help Redditors with visual impairments, volunteers are writing elaborate transcriptions of memes and images across the site.

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The 20th century author was also a formidable science fiction critic.

After two decades of working in and researching the auto industry, I realized it was time to give up the driver's seat.

Despite hopes that ride hailing would ease traffic and reduce carbon emissions, a new study finds that it's actually driving them upward.

Having you been scoping out a new mattress or a Nintendo Switch game? It's Leap Day, and there are a lot of great sales going on.

Regulators have been hands-off on autonomous vehicles, even after deaths and injuries. But they acted quickly after a woman was hurt in Columbus this week.

That anxiety has spawned an onslaught of books: Some try to convince you that your job can get better, while others argue that the machines will simply take them all away.

The retail giant says it penalizes sellers who violate its policies, but some merchants say enforcement seems haphazard.

Organizers of the Game Developers Conference postponed the event after a series of big-name companies like Amazon and Blizzard pulled out citing health concerns.

The proposed fines—against T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint—total more than $200 million for their role in breaches of privacy.

News reports claim that a Japanese patient was reinfected with Covid-19. But there are other possibilities, like a bad test or a flare-up of the original disease.

Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier since 2003—but not by much.

*Plague Inc*. saw a spike in popularity around the world following initial reports of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Dangerzone takes potentially malicious files and safely sanitizes them for you.

A striking overlap exists between the path of today's viral spread and the path of the Black Death in the 1300s.

Antitrust regulators say they're interested in data-driven mergers. Now we'll see how serious they are.

Because volcanic eruptions are tricky to predict, some Neapolitans—who are sandwiched between two volcanoes—take solace in Catholic miracles.

This versatile jacket from Outdoor Research uses a special material that makes it great for a variety of conditions and activities.

Following a rocky first season, the neo-noir adaptation gets a major sleeve upgrade for Season 2—both in front of the camera, and behind it.

Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are.

She mapped Apollo 11’s path to history. Now, her legacy lives on in the trajectories of future spaceflights—including the moon landing planned for 2024.

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The snapping shrimp's claws pop louder than gunshots. Rising temperatures could make them fire faster—and disrupt their undersea neighbors.

They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a "money mule" to pick up the cash.

Although servers are crunching six times as much data as in 2010, energy consumption has stayed relatively flat, thanks to improved hardware efficiency.

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Last week, the Department of Energy gave a commercial company the green light to test fuel made from spent uranium.

People have a lot of bizarre notions about Covid-19 and the 2020 elections—but if you have to laugh, just do it in private.

*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*'s Victoria Mahoney will reportedly write and direct the adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's sci-fi novel.

Bathe an amphibian in blue light and it glows a brilliant green. But what does this all mean?

Affected devices include iPhones, iPads, Macs, Amazon Echos and Kindles, Android devices, and various Wi-Fi routers.

New reports show autonomous vehicles from 36 companies covered 2.9 million miles in the state last year, up from 2.1 million in 2018.

The archive includes hi-res images of Muhammad Ali's boxing gear, 15th-century manuscripts, and data that could help surface untold stories of women in science.

A wedge between family members that drives itself.

Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it.

A series of mods can transform the building-block game into a new way to explore what the world may look after climate change.

The patient was admitted to UC Davis Medical Center on February 19 but not diagnosed until the 23rd—raising concerns about testing capabilities and health care workers’ exposure to the disease.

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Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility’s defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother.

New reports track how often humans need to take control of autonomous vehicles being tested. That's a lousy way to assess the nascent industry.

We had so much fun at Toy Fair 2020 this past weekend, we had to show you some more photos of the zany scene.

Angela Belcher found a way to turn nature's zombies into a tiny assembly line. But creating a new power cell might be just the beginning.

The phone goes head-to-head with Samsung on new features, but it's still not very compelling.

The lamp maker Gantri partnered with the Silicon Valley design firm Ammunition to produce a new line of greener lighting products.

Uber's ad program gives drivers a chance to earn more, and gives the ride-hailing company a new revenue stream as it struggles to become profitable.

Nonsurgical cosmetic methods, like nose and face shapers, are all over social media as users chase the perfect selfie—but these rituals are nothing new.

Software that reads CT lung scans had been used primarily to detect cancer. Now it's retooled to look for signs of pneumonia caused by coronavirus.