Science

A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across the world, hitting companies and governments in Europe especially hard.
EU fines Google a record 2.42 billion euros
European regulators said "Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service."
Moonwalkers' Apollo 11 capsule gets needed primping for its star turn on Earth
In 1969 it was the orbiting home and refuge for the first astronauts who walked on the moon. Today, after decades on display in a Smithsonian museum, the module is being restored for a national tour
Forget Freud: Dreams replay our everyday lives
Sigmund Freud thought dreams were all about wish fulfillment and repressed desire. But scientists now think they're linked to memory processing and consciousness. And they're often quite mundane.
Dr. Mae Jemison on the need for science literacy
Physician, astronaut and engineer Dr. Mae Jemison says everybody needs to be "science literate" to think their way through the day, and be a contributing member of society.
What road did your lunch travel before it reached your plate? This video follows a BLT from the fields where it began its journey.
Firm contracted by RNC left millions of voter files unsecured online
A security researcher discovered massive troves of information about 198 million potential American voters stored on an Amazon server without as much as a password.
A couple's quest to stop a rare disease before it takes one of them
Twenty years. That's how long two grad students, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel, think they have before a deadly disease envelops Sonia's brain. The Massachusetts couple is now racing to find a cure.