Sci-Fi

Facial recognition isn’t the only scary thing bad actors and governments can use computer recognition for. What if an AI could watch a video of us tapping on our touchscreen...

is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate.   The oil giant BP popularized the devious term "carbon footprint" in the aughts to quietly...

But before we get to that even more impossible-sounding idea, let’s stick with the basic science for a moment. If the people of your time are so used to Space...

In Mashable’s series Wasted, we dig into the myriad ways we’re trashing our planet. Because it’s time to sober up. TikTok is turning against the viral resin art it made...

The University of California has always embraced the startup ecosystem in the state, including running a few of its own incubators and accelerators. Now Berkeley will have a huge new...

There’s no proof you’re going to die. Don’t take that the wrong way; there’s a lot of evidence. But proof is for math, and death is only certain in retrospect.That’s...

On a long, recent trudge through forest burned in California's 2020 Castle Fire, a six-person survey crew peered at a curiosity in the distance. "We saw a little tiny smudge...

It's not often we're able to enjoy a full night sky's worth of stars, but luckily the European Space Agency's on it. The ESA posted a dreamy timelapse video of...

SpaceX is making good on its reusable rocket claims.  Early Sunday morning, the tenth launch of a Falcon 9 rocket sent 60 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida. It's the...

Welcome home, Ingenuity. The small helicopter that NASA sent to Mars as carry-on baggage for the Perseverance rover back in July 2020 finished what was originally supposed to be its...