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The list of bad things that can happen to you in space has gotten longer.

If you've bought an Apple laptop in the last few years and you try out the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, you will be furious. It's so good.

Netflix's "best of" content rankings reek of bullshit. And based on Netflix's own metrics for popularity, they are.

The newly discovered monument featured standing stones that were arranged in a circular pattern around a spot bearing the distinctive traces of a powerful lightning strike. Intriguingly, the new research indicates that the structure itself may have been deliberately built to attract lightning.

Every couple of years some scientist says they're on the brink, and then nothing happens. What's the obstacle here, exactly?

Sure, there were disasters this year — one of the products on this list even started out as such! That said, these are some of the very best gadgets of 2019.

Local authorities are dumbfounded by a flock of drones that recently began performing nighttime flights over northeast Colorado with no apparent purpose or operators (at least, none they've been able to identify so far).  

The battle over Donald Trump's rightful place in the presidential tallness hierarchy has waged on over the past several years, without ceasefire, on the Wikipedia page "Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States" &mdash an edit war so bitter and petty and senseless that only our current president could have manufactured it.

You can't buy Tesla's electric Cybertruck yet, but you can get a vehicle that looks pretty close. All you need is 666,666 rubles ($10,800) and a laidback attitude.

The first thing to realize is that new-year resolutions are a self-defeating sham inimical to the process of real and lasting change. But you can, maybe, eat a bit better.

In the grand scheme of things, 10 years is nothing; an insignificant slice of our planet's long timeline. But when it comes to tech, a lot can change in a decade.

In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting for legitimacy and proving their combined worth. And corporations? Well, they spent the 2010s learning how to co-opt fandom to silence critics, manipulate press and make even more money.

Few people would look at this online bookseller 20 years ago and anticipated that it would lead the way in crafting a privately owned surveillance state.

I remember my first phone call from the FBI clearly. A few days later, I was sitting in a mostly empty Indian restaurant in Midtown shaking hands with two FBI agents.

A comparative analysis of historical and contemporary astronomical data has resulted in the discovery of approximately 100 star-like objects that unexpectedly vanished.

For every major leap in technology, there have been face plants, ill-advised cash grabs and just plan bad tech. here are the gadgets and technology that absolutely screwed the pooch.

Researchers in Turkey have uncovered modified Neolithic human teeth that were worn as pendants, perhaps in a necklace or bracelet.

For years you've flown without issue — no breathing exercises, no pills — but suddenly you can't board without picturing catastrophe.

The decade of the 2010s saw the rise of social media and the proliferation of digital tools that allow people to alter photos and videos. Here's what that combination brought us.

When the first Baby Yoda merch was revealed, everyone said it stunk. Then Funko and Disney released some stuff and we complained again. Now, finally, Hasbro is throwing its hat into the Baby Yoda ring and the results should have someone for everyone.