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A new study says OkCupid users are often willing to respond to messages from potential lovers outside their own race, and once they do, they're more likely to initiate interracial contact going forward.

Protect your accounts, avoid scams, and keep randos off your Wi-Fi.

Tweeting creditable, verifiable information is hardly scandalous

Your wrist deserves the best.

Experts are divided as to how helpful this pricey drug will actually be.

Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.

A bee science saga—and other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

With water, hot vents, and tasty hydrogen, Enceladus has everything methanogen microbes could ever want. But is anybody home?

When AI designs the route, passengers arrive 5.3 minutes faster. Here's why.

NextVR wants to change how you watch sports

The tech behind the 200mph MotoGP superbikes is taking to the streets. Get a taste of the action with our heart-pounding, high-speed video lap around the Laguna Seca racetrack

Inside the lab where computing makes a quantum leap.

We talked with judges from two of the world's most prestigious science fairs to get some tips on how to put together a great project and have an even better time.

Blow your unspent 2020 pants budget on a fancy camera.

Bright city lights can be deadly for migratory birds like warblers and thrushes.

Schools across the country are offering courses where students learn how to stop malicious hackers. Step one: learn their ways.

Best use of a six-pack in a while

The Signal developer on why the FBI and governments can’t be trusted

The Black Plague, Third Pandemic and Spanish Flu wiped out hundreds of millions; they have nothing on today's worst diseases

Arsenic-laced drinking water, lead-contaminated soils and choking air pollution are sadly just the start in some of the world's dirtiest places