Jesse Emspak

Actor Kristen Stewart co-authors computer science research, revealing how artificial intelligence could be used to create moody shots in her movie "Come Swim."

How much dark matter has gone missing since the Big Bang? New research suggests anywhere from 2 to 5 percent.

A new automated, flying ambulance completed its first solo flight, offering a potential solution for challenging search and rescue missions.

A new way of getting information into light waves could mean faster fiber-optics.

NASA's Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft pushes ever higher above the small world.

Simulations of quarks and gluons show strange spinning twisters and spokes.

The long strange trip: a history of voting machines.

A study of some old data from a 1990s-era particle-accelerator experiment could be a hint at new physics. Or it could be a fluke.

Many people in the U.S. were affected by a widespread internet outage early today due to a so-called DDoS cyberattack. How does this attack work, and what does it do?

The U-2 plane has a long and storied history that stretches back to the late 1950s, but how is the reconnaissance aircraft used today?

Scientists at MIT have developed a handheld device that can evaluate how ripe an apple is by measuring the glow of chlorophyll in the fruit's skin under ultraviolet light.

If recent findings on Earth are any guide, the oldest rocks on Mars may have signs of ancient life locked up inside.

But they may soon. Researchers have written a program that detects sarcastic people on social media and the internet.

Could lasers be humanity's ticket to Proxima Centauri?

Researchers recreate a small piece of the world that formed the very first life.

Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface, but where did it come from?

Engineers have taken a tip from Medusa, it seems. They have stared down the pesky greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and turned it to stone.