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Last week, NASA researchers, interplanetary entrepreneurs and award-winning science fiction writers gathered at UC San Diego's new Center for Human Imagination. Everyone agreed: Humans are about to venture farther into space that we've ever gone before.

The National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., has been called a modern-day moon-shot, a project of "revolutionary science," and "the mother of all boondoggles."

A new report says University of California employees saw their pay go up an average 4 percent in 2013.

If someone is infected by the Loa loa worm, taking a drug to treat river blindness could be risky. Now there's a fast way to identify the worm — by turning a smartphone into a microscope.

The share of multiracial children in America has multiplied tenfold in the past 50 years. It's a good time to take stock of our shared vocabulary when it comes to describing Americans like me.

Yak butter tea is often referred to as the national drink of Tibet. It's been consumed in the Himalayas for centuries and helped inspire the Bulletproof Coffee craze in the U.S.

China is forecast to become the world's leading innovator this year, overtaking the U.S. and Japan in number of patent filings. But scientific fraud scandals bedevil the country's reputation as an innovator, and many say aspects of traditional Chinese culture may be partly to blame

People don't like paying for charity overhead. With the choice to give overhead-free, they'll donate more.

Aislinn Hunter's new novel tells two parallel tales of two young girls — both gone missing in the same place, a century apart. Reviewer Jean Zimmerman says the book's tough truths held her interest.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that human genes cannot be patented, upending 30 years of patent awards granted by the U.S. Patent Office. The court's unanimous decision has enormous implications for the future of personalized medicine and in many ways is likely to shape the future of science and technology.