It is inevitable. Peggy Orenstein explains how to cope with it.

Who cares about my friends? I'm missing the news!

Never read the comments. ­We worked with Disqus to quantify the online troll problem, from the trolliest time of day to the nastiest state in the union.

Technology is changing all our lives so profoundly, so quickly, that it can be scary. We asked experts to weigh in on how stressed we should be.

Every generation regards its reckoning with new technology as a turning point for the species. You just have to learn to stop worrying and love the future.

Will California's long-term green ambitions turn its economy as chilly as a San Francisco summer?

Some 600 people watched the eclipse in a field in eastern Oregon. And photographer Brian Guido watched them.

Images taken days apart capture the emotions polarizing the country.

Crypto's fine and good, but make sure you're looking after the basics.

Forthcoming version of Chrome will display more warnings for unencrypted sites.

The collision with a tanker happened in one of the world's most congested waterways.

You’ll want it, even if you can't get it yet.

Monday, August 21 marks the first total solar eclipse to hit the mainland United States in nearly 40 years.

Sure, you can buy solar glasses. Or you can save your money an make a DIY pinhole. It's a lot more fun.

Don't have a DSLR with a fancy lens? That's fine. You can still get some great photos using your phone's camera.

Sometimes the game of thrones' smartest players make the dumbest moves.

A tariff on international solar panels threatens to curb an important contributor to the nascent clean energy boom.

Image recognition software showed a tendency to associate women with shopping and men with shooting.

Humans can hear approaching sirens, autonomous cars need to, too.

You should be able to TiVo the internet. Here's why you can't.

The engineering lift behind the mysterious Project One.

Cord-cutting is not cheap or easy, and there's not much hope of improvement on either front any time soon.

Some eclipse aficionados are skipping the traffic and meeting the eclipse more or less half way—from the air.

Twenty-six years later, the ultimate action flick is back in multiplexes—but did it need to be baaaaack?

These great apps can help keep you on track in school.

A veteran of Google’s communications team argues for preserving the famous Google culture of debate—even after a controversial firing.

John Kessel's latest novel imagines a world where men are given everything—except suffrage.

With car manufacturers and technology companies making more battery-powered devices, lithium is becoming an ever-more precious metal.

The BeoSound Shape is assembled from three flavors of hexagonal tiles, all of them covered in pretty fabric.

By elevating Cyber Command, the Trump administration signals just how important cyber warfare has become.

Opinion: White supremacists should be stopped with education, not doxxing.

A jellyfish galaxy with a supermassive black hole, Jupiter's many clouds, and stunning views of Titan this week in space.

If DNA repair makes useful mutations more likely, it could accelerate cells’ adaptations to harsh environments.

In advance of next week's solar eclipse, Stephen Wolfram explains how many millennia of computation have led us exactly to this point.

This week's podcast is all about the Essential Android phone.

The sun's getting a lot of the spotlight these days. It's time to give the moon its due.

The next Star Wars anthology movie will reportedly focus on Obi-Wan Kenobi. That's cool, but isn't it time for a film about a less well-known character?

A full revamp of a beloved car, from the engine to the headlights.

Before social media, moments experienced collectively were very different—and maybe even better—but they still created connections.

Four separate security incidents, including _Game of Thrones_ leaks, have turned HBO's August into a case study of hack attacks.

A new breed of DeLorean, off-roaders go electric, and autonomous vehicles take to highway work zones.

Autonomous vehicles will saves lives by avoiding crashes—except this one.

Belgian researchers built a soft, squishy robot that can heal itself with just a bit of heat.

To view the world through a supremacist lens is to live in the complicity of false equivalences, to willfully color malice as virtue.

Think of Essential's flagship phone as the anti iPhone.