Sci-Fi

When the dust cleared and the gavel dropped, the United States’ place at the 2018 global climate negotiations — a two-week long affair in Poland attended by nearly 200 nations — had been sealed. The […]

An artist’s conception of the newly discovered object, 2018 VG18. Image: Carnegie Institution for Science By Mark Kaufman2018-12-17 21:19:47 UTC There’s something orbiting the sun, way, way beyond the distant realm of Pluto.  A team […]

On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to the […]

Machine learning models are getting quite good at generating realistic human faces — so good that I may never trust a machine, or human, to be real ever again. The new approach, from researchers at […]

This post is part of Science of Sci-Fi, Mashable’s ongoing series dissecting the science (or lack of science) in our favorite sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books. Not many American nerds these days know about […]

For the first time in the company’s history, Virgin Galactic made it more than 50 miles up above Earth.  According to the spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson, this marks the first time their spaceplane […]

Eight years ago, in the town of Van Buren, Missouri, newly retired resident John Pope walked six blocks and picked up 1,085 cigarette butts. The unsightly, unpleasant litter problem — as we’re all acutely aware […]

Some say love is the gift that keeps on giving. I say it’s the largest diamond to ever be found in North America. Image: Dominion Diamond Mines ULC  By Jess Joho2018-12-15 23:52:49 UTC I don’t […]

Image: Czarek Sokolowski/AP/REX/Shutterstock By Adam Rosenberg2018-12-15 23:10:42 UTC There’s now a set of standards for all Paris Agreement-aligned countries to stick to as they work to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. The deal […]

When news breaks – whether the story of a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack, or a natural disaster – people increasingly turn to the internet and social media. Individuals use Twitter and Facebook as primary […]