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Verizon has given the U.S. National Security Agency information on all its telephone calls for months. But it's not the calls' content the government is looking at—it's their context.

Spoiler: still not super hospitable.

A scientific breakdown brought to you courtesy of a high-speed camera.

Coverage doesn't always reflect where the money is going. Whether that matters is a different story.

How a drug now can change fear later.

Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient Chinese lake roughly 55 million years ago, Archicebus achilles provides a key link in the history of human evolution.

Raindrops are to mosquitoes what falling VW Beetles would be to humans. Yet incredibly--maddeningly--mosquitoes survive rainstorms all the time. How?

A month ago this was Iron Man 3 level science fiction. Now? Reality.

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in two states, lawmakers and law enforcement have to grapple with how best to deal with cannabis-impaired drivers.

Protesting? There's a map for that.

Poppin' peptides.

Whenever you decide to clean your house, you could be slowly but surely sweeping your tan right out the door.

And create a law-abiding cloned version of wayward citizens

The rice would help those who suffer from mineral deficiencies in developing countries, but the agency hopes U.S. shoppers will bite, too.

Pictured: a turtle with a really cool shell.

Before people will understand science, scientists must understand people.

Autonomous war robots are coming. Panicking about them will only make things worse.

Avalanches, exposure, heart attacks, and the other tragic ways Everest has claimed climbers' lives.