Patients with hairy tongue syndrome—which can also turn tongues black, brown, yellow, or blue—often report gagging, mouth dryness, or bad breath.

When YouTube's Content ID system goes wrong, it goes very, very wrong.

A computer glitch has put the future of humanity's farthest-flung space probe in doubt.

Watch brands are plundering their archives to produce pieces that combine both past and present, hoping to deliver innovation with added authenticity.

Software flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.

A common parasite could one day deliver drugs to the brain. Here's how scientists are turning Toxoplasma gondii from foe into friend.

The organization says cutting the country off would have "devastating" effects on the global internet system.

The ACLU released a trove of documents showing how Homeland Security contracted with surveillance companies to scour location information.

The mandatory patch addressed a critical vulnerability in a widely used plugin that allowed untrusted visitors to download a website's backups.

The attackers exploited a known vulnerability and installed credit card skimmers on more than 500 websites.

If you've ever blown bubbles, you know how quickly they burst. Now French researchers have concocted a type that stays intact for hundreds of days.

High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man's was over 1,000 mg/dL.

The SpaceX rocket will launch during the late afternoon so its descent into Indian Ocean is visible.

Microsoft held off on releasing the privacy-unfriendly feature after a swell of pushback last year. Now it's trying again, with a few improvements that skeptics say still aren't enough.

The new version of Starship will be tested again in four to six weeks. A third consecutive failure could indicate fundamental problems with the updated design.

New research highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how nonhuman species, including dolphins, are exposed.

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start worrying?

Global plastic pollution talks have stalled—but a treaty is possible if countries can agree on finances, the proper regulation of dangerous ingredients, and set limits on production.

If you try to figure out how OpenAI's o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram.

The simple premise of the wildly popular word guessing game is difficult to protect under US law.