Four scientists talk through the ways they now build outreach into their work as a way to spread their research's impact…
The current reckoning with data has been a long time coming, a historian of privacy in the US writes.
US privacy laws focus on informing consumers what's happening with their data; other countries specifically restrict…
As millions in federal dollars flow to states to protect elections, what should the money help pay for?
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system.…
The best way to protect elections is to plan and prepare for an audit of the results after the votes are cast.
Are DNA samples today's version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide…
A couple thousand satellites are orbiting Earth right now. Under the right conditions, your naked eye can spot these human-made…
It will be hard to adjust. Considering what happened with the onset of car travel and web surfing, society can't just…
People in Appalachia are skeptical and cautious around technology – and how they think can be useful and instructive for…
Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance,…
Prime numbers are the biggest and oldest data set in mathematics. Why have they captivated mathematicians for millennia?
An email from Aleksandr Kogan sheds light on exactly how much your Facebook data reveals about you, and what data scientists…
Whether or not you’ve ever used the word flutter, you’ve encountered the phenomenon – in flags, airplanes, bridges…
Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don't notice errors and misinformation we know…
A core idea in molecular biology is that one gene codes for one protein. Now biologists have found an example of a gene…
The wired Earth of the 21st century is at the mercy of the volatile nature of the sun.
Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the…
Facebook's users have wildly different expectations about privacy and security. What may look like inadequate oversight…
In the wake of a self-driving Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona, an ethicist examines the state of autonomous vehicle…