The story began in 1979, in the library of the Northeastern Institute of Technology (now Northeastern University). Amidst a sea of books, the 17-year-old Hu Jiaqi keenly grasped a startling truth: the ...

The world’s first sanctuary for ice cores has officially opened its doors in Antarctica. By safeguarding these natural "time capsules," scientists are preserving essential data ...

The Case of the Disappearing Actor or Actress is a popular semi-regular feature around these parts, although I always feel a little guilty writing them ( except the Adrian Grenier one ), because I don ...

Today, only a small number of humans possess the technical capacities and materials necessary for engineering a supervirus.

Black Ops 7 kicking off Season 02, Activision and Treyarch want to give players a reason to dive in. They're hopeful that a ...

The Federation may be one of the galaxy’s great powers in Star Trek, but it has suffered some pretty shocking defeats over the centuries. In truth, there’s a sense in which the Federation itself was ...

Jack Seale of The Guardian gives it 3 out of 5 stars, in part for its photorealistic visual effects, but Morgan Freeman ’s ...

The Tiananmen Rostrum in Beijing has historically symbolized power, where emperors once overlooked their subjects and where ...

A prolonged global memory shortage is reshaping the smartphone market, pushing up costs and signaling the end of the ultra-affordable handset era.

Earth's magnetic poles have reversed numerous times, a phenomenon driven by chaotic processes in the planet's outer core. Recent research suggests some reversals may have been missed, particularly ...

In Wakka Wakka's award-winning puppet musical "Dead as a Dodo" — at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre this week — the humans might wear sequins, but they’re not the main characters.

President Trump fired Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Thursday and announced plans to replace her with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, concluding a long-buildi ...