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And what do voters really care about? The authors of "Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work At All Works So Well" weigh in.

When the Navy needs to surprise and overwhelm an inland enemy, it can send in its new Zumwalt-class destroyer.

Not where you'd think.

A Japanese invention allows you to send smells via phone. Sort of.

Blending a light-sensitive resin, an ultraviolet projector, and robotics to turn 3-D printing upside down.

A mathematical theory for the origins of ball lightning, one of atmospheric science's rarest and more confounding natural phenomena.

Felix Baumgartner skydived to a picture-perfect landing from 24 miles above the Earth on Sunday morning, tentatively setting three world records—but not before a hairy two-hour ascent. Here’s what happened with his helmet.

Theresa Klein talks about Achilles, the first machine to move in a biologically accurate way.

And how can we stop it?

3:02pm MDT - And that's a wrap on press conference. Tune in tomorrow for a story featuring more of what the team had to say.

Our trusty BeerScientist introduces a recipe for the Mild Marathon ale, using some of the year's most plentiful hops.

DARPA wants help coming up with new Grand Challenges to expand the abilities of humans. So we made them a list.

No surprise: performance enhancers enhance performance. But they might not give me the instant mountain-scaling boost I want.

But not really. A research paper shows how perfectly verified statistical results can still be perfectly wrong.

New research says the planet has no water and is made primarily of carbon. It also shows that planets can be more complex to study than stars.

A team of researchers is going down the theoretical rabbit hole with a test to find out if our universe is nothing more than a computer program.

The simple tricks to fool Earth-evolved humans into living on Mars time.

A rare form of meningitis has infected more than 200 people and claimed 15 lives. Are you at risk? And how did the outbreak start in the first place?

A Philadelphia robotics startup is blazing trails in the nascent unmanned systems industry by focusing on technology, and ignoring the killer app.