The top 5 stories of the year - the new gene-editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9, the possibility we're living inside a Matrix-like computer simulation,

driverless cars, Zika virus, and #1 gravitational waves.

The author suggests the five most plausible places that alien or microbial life could be found outside the Earth.

We have the technology to make driverless cars, but there are risks that come with the benefits.

The author suggests we may be better off accepting our planet altering role.

A Vancouver company and U of Florida are working on a breathalyzer than can identify the molecular pattern of THC.

The THC level in lab weed is nowhere near as high as what is really being smoked.

A neurological look at the phenomenon of fake news.

To convince a person with conservative political views that climate change is real, change the way you deliver the message.

A new nanotechnology tool could help fuse the spinal cords of a head to its new body.

controversial solar geoengineering has been made less risky by dispersing calcite particles into the stratosphere.