When it comes to Healthcare.gov we all know what a terrible mess has been made, but now eight Democratic senators are asking the Obama Administration to allow tech startups to serve as a HealthCare.Gov website alternative.

Since the news that Steve Jobs passed away this past Wednesday, the reaction from the world has been nothing short of incredible. Mere hours after I heard about it, I received a tearful phone call from my cousin at college, who talked of a 500-person candlelight vigil on campus. There were post-it notes with "Thank You Steve" plastered all over the Apple Store.

Now that the final shuttle mission is away, many people are left wondering what future lies ahead for NASA.

Hackers from a group calling themselves the "Script Kiddies" infiltrated the Fox News Politics twitter account, and published false reports that President Obama had been killed.

Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.

A political stunt threatens science funding with a misleading take on the nature of basic research. It's too bad that we can't send the responsible members of Congress to the corner until they learn to behave.

The global security apparatus meets its match in the Internet.

An explanation for the spectacular missile contrail that appeared in the Los Angeles sky last night continues to prove elusive. Amidst the speculation, a benign possibility suggests itself: could it be that someone got carried away while trying to earn Scouting's space exploration merit badge?

With war, scandal, reform and economics at the forefront of The White House’s list of priorities, net neutrality has taken sort of a backseat to other issues. Whether this is justified or not is debatable, especially with the recent news of a possible agreement between Verizon and Google proposing a “private” internet for sites willing to pay a premium. The ...

This toilet has been floating (no pun intended) around a few viral sites recently and I hesitated to jump on it out of sheer will. I’m typically against posting stuff that you might have already seen. But there’s something about the Admiral Ackbar Toilet that keeps bringing me back. It’s likely not the smell. Deviantart user bmansnuggles created this awesome ...