Ben Wolford

The U.N. has created a save-the-world crowdfunding campaign, but critics say it faces colossal challenges to success.

In much of the world, the disease has been all but cured, but in developing countries it remains a common killer of women.

Making nuclear fuel safer and more efficient by revisiting a Cold War–era discovery.

Half of all clinical trials are never published, and Big Pharma wants to keep it that way.

Astronomers are digging through 250 billion pages' worth of signals in search of intelligent alien life

Scientists are gathering information from massive radio telescopes to improve chances of tapping into extraterrestrial 'phone calls'

Instead of random numbers, the passwords of the future will rely on our knack for remembering faces

Facial recognition technology could put an end to pesky passwords

After threats and rumored killings, 200,000 Cambodians head home

One scientist predicted the melting of West Antarctica over 40 years ago

Genetic sequencing on one of the oldest skeletons in the Americas suggests that all native North and South Americans are related

Augmented reality could save jobs by making humans more efficient

Sound pollution might be driving whales insane—and causing mass strandings

Researchers have produced 20 medications using a new scientific technique

Five children in California have been paralyzed by a mystery virus – and scientists are still in the dark

NASA suggests praying is still our best hope for keeping giant meteorites from crashing into Earth but others are working on a planetary defense

Drug policy is pushing drug traffickers deep into the jungles, with serious environmental consequences

Computers aren't just getting smarter, they are getting better at figuring out how to be smarter.

PCs aren't just getting smarter, they are better at figuring out how to be smarter