Donald Trump’s rise and reign was, and continues to be, anchored by an acutely corrosive variety of fandom.

Comic-Con 2018's best costumes included Wonder Woman, 'Game of Thrones', and more.

Drafting decreases the overall power needed to ride at a constant speed *or* allows a rider to go slightly faster with the same power.

A trillion-particle simulation? No sweat for the Trinity supercomputer at Los Alamos National Lab.

Juul Labs, the nation's most popular e-cigarette, is also under scrutiny from parents, health advocates, and regulators.

Companies deploy scraper bots to snoop on rivals' websites. The targets try to sniff out and block the bots, setting off an escalating arms race.

Plus: BMW goes after Uber, robo-cars get new rule books, the dream of a solar-powered car, and more.

As a founder of Giphy Studios, the first creative agency devoted to making original GIFs, Samantha Scharff knows how to slow your scroll.

Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.

Two-factor authentication is a must, but don't settle for the SMS version. Use a more secure authenticator app instead.

Russian meddling, Venmo privacy, and more of the week's top security news.

Emily Calandrelli's children's books weave in science throughout.

With infrared eyes, astronomers are more than scratching the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon.

Don't replace your existing multicooker just yet.

Solar panels may never be good enough to keep electric cars from being plugged in, but advances in the tech make driving on power generated from the Sun a near-term possibility.

Sacking the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' helmer was the worst outcome of a lose-lose situation.

When the filmmaker made 'Unbreakable' in 2000, the studio told him to avoid mentioning comics. Those days are done.

And other tidbits from a conversation with the director.

One day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to clarify his position on Holocaust deniers, Facebook announced a new policy to take down misinformation that might lead to violence.

Emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the social network has had plans to launch low Earth orbit satellites since at least 2016.

Municipalities all over the US are taking oil companies to court for damages related to global warming. They're losing.

This week, special guest Nitasha Tiku charts Juul's ever-changing relationship with its consumers, its investors, and those who oppose its product.

Phishing attempts and DDoS attacks have begun hitting 2018 campaigns. The US seems ill-prepared to meet the challenge.

The state's third-largest wildfire ever burned more than 100,000 acres and destroyed more than 200 homes.

On Friday, John Collins—aka The Paper Airplane Guy—had ten attempts to break his own world record for paper flight distance. He came up short.

Apple’s 2011 release of the emoji keyboard may have signaled the start of the spike, but it feels like emoji have been with us forever.

This week, we've got some big growth for some big games, alongside a very late bug fix and an excellent Nintendo Switch port.

Are science and commerce the only legitimate pursuits off-planet—and who gets to decide?

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Look beyond the Twitter antics and the up-and-down stock price, and you'll find a growing mass of happy customers.

Researchers analyzing the pattern of tweets say 20 or more real Americans may have been erroneously included on a list given to Congress, and later publicized.

The secretive startup has released a video showing its car facing down some of San Francisco’s gnarliest thoroughfares and San Franciscans’ most befuddling behaviors.

With employees critiquing executives in the press, Dara Khosrowshahi must now decide whether to repeat history, or forge a new company culture based on trust.

NASA's ban on scientific contacts doesn't apply to all academics.

Jodie Whittaker, who plays the show's new (and thirteenth!) Doctor, met her fans at the show's Comic-Con panel today.

The internet is an essential tool for democracy in the modern era. And that's why the government wanted to tax it in Uganda.

The closed group was taken over by abusive trolls, raising questions about Facebook's ability to monitor spaces designed for sharing intimate information.

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iFixit performs surgery on Apple's new silicone-padded keyboard.

'Kingdom Hearts Union χ' hit mobile a couple of years ago—and is the perfect appetizer for the long-awaited console title.

The next generation of Corning's Gorilla Glass can withstand repeated drops—and is built for the future of smartphones.

RAICES, which received more than $20 million in donations through a viral Facebook campaign, wanted Salesforce to drop its contract with a US border agency.

Ernesto Benavides hangs out of helicopters to document the devastation inside Peru's Tambopata National Reserve.

Humans are going to live on the moon eventually. So how are we going to *move around* there?

Sending a robot into the icy depths and getting it back alive can be more challenging than communicating with a Mars rover millions of miles away.

Aviation companies like Sikorsky are working on self-flying helicopters, a technical ordeal that makes robo-planes look easy.

No one seems to have listened to the Theranos founder in her own words. Until now.

It's a parent’s job to think her child is exceptional.