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Hallucinogenic mushrooms are perhaps the last thing you'd expect to find growing in the Queen of England's garden.

Enjoy this week’s stories on technological progress and the resulting tension caused! ROBOTS: Does the Halting Problem Mean No Moral Robots? Michael Byrne | Motherboard “The general idea under consideration is whethe...

Moov aims to be more than a fitness tracker -- it's a fitness friend. This wearable coaches you through your workouts, helping couch potatoes get into the swing of exercising, or challenging fitness fanatics to take work...

Scientists have long known that dark matter is out there, silently orchestrating the universe's movement and structure. But what exactly is dark matter made of? And what does a dark matter particle look like? That remain...

Congress passed a $1.1 trillion federal budget Thursday and NASA received $500 million more than the White House requested for the 2015 fiscal year.

As ice melts, the world now has a chance to respond.

In Charlotte, N.C., artists are providing the vision to solve some tough community problems.

Sometimes, to solve that flooding problem you need an artist.

Inspired by origami, foldable technologies and products are driving a new field of engineering research.

Desires and choices affect what the brain does.

Sundials, your liver, even a rock: all of them fit the most basic definition of a computing machine. So what's a sensible definition? (full text available to subscribers)

With a bump from J.K. Rowling, "Luna" was picked as the name for an orphaned sea otter pup being raised at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.