Continuing our country's rich tradition of semi-legal highs with embarrassing names and dangerous side effects, New Jersey police say they are now contending with people drinking something called "Catnip Cocktail," which is sold as an anti-anxiety supplement for pets.
Evidence of an unusually strong solar storm that hit Earth in 660 BCE has been detected in Greenland ice cores--a finding which shows we still have lots to learn about these disruptive events.
It's difficult to change someone's mind if they have anything like a strong opinion on the risks of vaccination, or the usefulness of orbs and essential oils in the treatment of late-stage liver cancer. But if you're ever going to stand a chance of doing so, you're going to need to wipe the rage-spittle off your face...
Multiple airlines around the world, along with the countries of China and Indonesia, have decided to ground Boeing 737 Max-8 planes in the wake of a crash on Sunday that killed 157 people. The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 was the second by a Boeing 737 Max-8 in the past five months. This past October, a...
Dark mode can make software easier on the eye, give you a refreshing change from the norm, and even save on battery life if you're using an OLED display--here are all the apps and platforms offering the option of a dark mode right now, and how to enable it in each case.
The New York City Police Department has developed a pattern-recognition tool called Patternizr to sort through mountains of files related to "hundreds of thousands of crimes logged in the NYPD's database," the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro--whose administration has been faced with a massive economic crisis, allegations of election-rigging, and a growing power struggle with U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó--is blaming the country's fourth consecutive day of widespread power outages on U.S.-backed...
Recently, at SXSW, Neil Gaiman and the cast of Good Omensshowed off some footage from the upcoming series and discussed its origins and shape. And according to Neil Gaiman himself, there was more to getting this work adapted than just his desire to see it unfold on the screen.
Okay, so we can acknowledge that plot holes aren't the end-all be-all of film criticism, but that doesn't mean they don't, occasionally, bother us. And here's one that's undoubtedly sticking in fan's craws: Okay, so if Nick Fury had this super powerful friend that he could page when there was danger, why didn't he do...
It's happened to all of us: You're just trying to enjoy your meal in peace when a bunch of liberal hippies shows up waving signs saying "We don't respect President Donald Trump" and chanting, "Green New Deal / Ban your meal!" And we've all long been hoping that someone would design an app that would allow us to eat in...
Ethiopian Airlines said Sunday that 149 passengers and 8 crew are dead following a crash near Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it is lifting an import ban that prevented a brand of genetically modified salmon--dubbed "Frankenfish" by some--from reaching U.S. shopping selves, CNN reported.
For those of us attached to our phones or laptops during all hours of the day, Dark Mode offers a welcome alternative to the searing whiteness that usually greets our eyeballs. It's the default pretty much everywhere: from documents to search engines and everywhere in between, including Slack.
California's 2018 is officially the worst year for wildfires in recorded state history, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday, citing the National Interagency Coordination Center's year-end statistical analysis. The 1.8 million acres of California land that burned last year was more than any other state in 2018,...
If there's one thing worth fighting for, it's family. Even if--especially if?--that family is made of loving, preternaturally caring robots.