Welcome to the supremely fascinating world of object reentry risk analysis.

The city has to shore up its seawalls and modify its sewer systems to fight back rising tides. And it's suing Big Petroleum over the bill.

Autonomous construction equipment has one big advantage over self-driving cars: They move around a relatively static, structured environment.

Hospitals and med schools use fake corpses to teach anatomy, and the most lifelike model is the SynDaver Patient.

Scientists descend on the Boiling River in Yellowstone to hunt for Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba that kills 97 percent of the humans it infects.

In their new book, scientist Kelly Weinersmith and *SMBC* cartoonist Zach Weinersmith give a wild glimpse into a future that may or may not involve space elevators and brain-computer interfaces.