Category: Science and Technology

The participants in Facebook’s Community Leadership Program aim to tackle everything from farming to racial tensions.

Pandora is staying the same, for now.

Religion and nature can both lead to awe, and turning to one or the other is a common coping strategy for the stress. But an awe-inspiring experience can have negative consequences as well as benefits, according to a novel study that uses cardiovascular responses to stress to take a broad look at awe and the critical role perspective plays when considering the effects of encountering awe.

The beloved yellow-and-black Autobot scout teams up with a teen girl in the upcoming Transformers prequel.

In what researchers call an unusually comprehensive analysis of nationwide data, they conclude that the rate of lawnmower injuries persists at close to 6,400 a year, most of them requiring surgery and hospitalization, and costing an average of $37,000 per patient.

In 2016, Evan Ungar set the box jump world record at 63.5 inches. Here’s how he does it—and how he could go higher.

The FBI ordered an evacuation at Sunspot Observatory, in New Mexico, in a child porn investigation. But that’s only one of the forces causing the town to empty out.

The streaming video hardware company refreshes its players, adding Google-powered voice control and making it easier to find free movies and shows.

Most patients with type 2 diabetes are treated with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ protocol, but this approach can leave many cases inadequately managed. New work indicates that inherited genetic changes may underlie the variability seen among diabetes patients, with different physiological processes potentially leading to high blood sugar. This work represents a first step toward using genetics to identify subtypes of type 2 diabetes.

Each year, fishermen harvest more than $500 million worth of Atlantic sea scallops from the waters off the east coast of the United States. A new model, however, predicts that those fisheries may potentially be in danger.