The White House is now bound to issue an official response to a petition on its We the People website after a request to pardon former NSA contractor Edward Snowden surpassed 100,000 signatures within the first month of its posting. 

Nelson Mandela was never in prison. Or so he told Peter Guber and a group of American businessmen. 

NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to document all U.S. drone strikes, a project that he thought might take 10 minutes. In the video below, he explains how, 5 months later, his project is still unfinished.

How "super" was your view of the Supermoon?

This collage, called "Love and Only Love" is made from recycled bits of hate speech.

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used "electrochemically active ink" and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand. 

A group created by the FAA is expected to recommend relaxing the ban on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.

There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by "absentee owners," meaning there is "no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly."

Tonight is the closest the Moon will be to us all year, so it will appear bigger and brighter than usual. So we are hoping for clear skies for the […]

The European Space Agency and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope produced this image of two galaxies known as Arp 142 that strongly resembles a penguin guarding an egg.

Can computers learn the same way a children learns? Yes. We are starting to tap into the power of cognitive computing.

The idea that "true happiness" is of a uniformly high emotional pitch, and our tendency to expect it from external things ironically ends up causing us a great deal of suffering. 

According to Singapore’s National Environment Agency, the city’s three-hour Pollutant Standards Index rose to an all-time high of 371. 

There is an economic imperative to have higher engagement at work, so why has it not changed?

Is this overkill: $30 billion for 40,000 border agents, 700 miles of fencing and aerial drones to guard the U.S.-Mexico border.

You can zoom in to the image and view an area of the Red Planet's Gale Crater in unprecedented detail. 

Monsanto executive Robert T. Fraley was awarded The World Food Prize for his work in developing genetically modified crops. 

Eric Swalwell is believed to be the first Congressman to vine a vote. 

Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Informatics have developed goggles that jam facial recognition systems. 

Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs?