Mitonuclear conflict—a struggle between the genes in a cell’s nucleus and those in its mitochondria—might sometimes split species in two.

The filmmaker's next project with HBO wants to change how you see stories.

It took us four days to assemble this 7,514 piece, $800 LEGO Millennium Falcon.

Kim Keever drops paint into a 200 gallon fish tank to make his art. It's mesmerizing.

A changing climate means fires, winds, and floods will devastate the places where humans meet the wild.

Fake news. Russian prapoganda. Hyperpartisanship. As public discourse migrates to the web, the old rules of the First Amendment may need rewriting.

Mapper wants to be the dominant supplier of 3D maps for every self driving car. 10,000 drivers might help them do it.

Franklin Foer, author of a new book about big tech companies, talks about the power of those firms and how to curb it.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter’s biggest problems used to be rare instances of pranksters acting up. Now chaos is the status quo.

Tom and Caren Teves lost their son in a mass shooting. Five years later, they're still trying to get the internet to stop making shooters famous.

Alexa, Google Home, and Siri will get to know all about you. But if you want to switch, you’ll have to start again at square one.

The full report is out from this summer's Defcon voting machine hack. And while there's been some progress in securing America's elections, experts fear it's not coming fast enough.

After a collision at sea, the USS John S McCain needed a ride home from the MV Treasure.

Meet this season's BB-8. Twitter can't get enough of him.

Ian Teh documents China's massive fight against desertification.

Context Cards will allow Snapchat users to swipe up on some snaps to find out more information and connect to services like Lyft or OpenTable.

Opinion: When a scientific paper is retracted, it can produce long-term aftershocks.

Every year around this time, the same rumors pop up about slow iPhones and planned obsolescence. Don't fall for it this time.

Come for the intensely loyal fandom, stay for the incredible attention to detail and excellent makeup work.

It calculates how more than two dozen genetic variants combine to increase or decrease your risk of developing Alzheimer's during your lifetime.

With properties on broadcast, cable, and multiple streaming outlets, Marvel is feeling super-overextended these days.

Security researchers say penetrating North Korea's hacking operations and even its domestic intranet is possible. But not enough to stop its nuclear threat.

Without power, phones and internet won't work. And without phones and internet, Puerto Rico can't coordinate repairs.

New vehicles, new threats, and a potentially dangerous new alliance. Snoke 'em if you got 'em.

With plans to get it running rural routes by 2025.

Despite critical praise, Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited sequel performed poorly at the box office. What happened?

Wonder Woman and her fellow superheroes took over the annual fan convention this year. These are all the best looks.

Engineers at MIT have developed a clever and surprisingly simple way to see around corners, thanks to the hidden wonders of light.

The startup says it can drop the cost of the laser sensors by 99 percent.

These are the best instant cameras you can buy in 2017.

The latest batch of rumors from the galaxy far, far away has a lot of juicy tidbits about the next Star Wars film.

Australian astrobiologist Abigail Allwood will serve as a principal investigator on NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

Facebook entered a StarCraft competition for software bots, revealing its ambition to compete with Google in artificial intelligence.

Facebook has finally released its pared-down Messenger Lite app for the US, saving you from the feature-bloat that makes Messenger such a chore.

The Secretary of State reportedly called President Trump a moron. The internet has thoughts about that.

It starts with the carpool lanes.

Hear me out: Mindfulness erodes the psychology of tribalism in subtle and powerful ways.

A new idea called the “information bottleneck” is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms—and might also explain how human brains learn.

The Traeger Timberline 850 has tremendous potential, but its flaws are tough to stomach.

Opinion: Violent footage uploaded from conflict zones can be crucial for prosecuting war criminals.

The one-time 'MythBusters' host has some ideas about just how transcendental science fiction can be.

Las Vegas, another NSA contractor slip-up, and more of the week's top security news.

And the economy is only partly to blame.

A new crop of startups wants readers, rather than advertisers, to fund internet content.

Volcanic activity in standing water could have provided conditions for early life.

Alphabet wins FCC approval to deploy Project Loon balloons to restore telecom service on storm-battered island.

Do fans want a follow-up to Guillermo del Toro's monsters-and-mechs fave, or would it be better to cancel the apocalypse?

When the former head of the Department of Homeland Security and current White House Chief of Staff's personal smartphone gets hacked, nothing good can happen.