Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

The most anticipated eclipse in American history is coming this summer. At the heart of it is Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which anticipates 100,000 visitors. Mental Floss takes a look behind the small town's preparations—and a deep dive into the passionate su

It’s the nature of the wolf to travel. By age two, wolves of both sexes usually leave their birth packs and strike out on their own, sometimes covering hundreds of miles as they search for mates and new territory. Whatever the reason, when wolves move, they do it with intent—and quickly. Humans don’t know how they decide which way to go, but the choice is as important as any they’ll ever make.

A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.

By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.

A working-class woman from East London invented computer dating more than half a century ago.

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in

The app has more than 11 million weekly viewers. But some disturbing knockoff videos have reached children, upsetting parents.

I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want…

New York City’s crime lab has been a pioneer nationally in analyzing especially difficult DNA samples. But the recent disclosure of the source code for its proprietary software is raising new questions about accuracy.

Twitter’s least-favorite startup has a few fatal flaws

Climate chaos, mass extinction, the collapse of civilization: A guide to facing the ecocide.

Judge William Alsup taught himself to code for fun in the 1980s. Now he’s the judge on Silicon Valley’s biggest cases.

It’s so bad