On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments. Single-celled organisms like bacteria teem in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures reach ...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have come under fire again after allegedly cutting off the medication of a kidney transplant recipient they arrested in Minnesota. The patient’s ...

Reports of U.S. citizens being stopped or even detained during recent immigration sweeps have renewed concerns about who ICE can question and what documentation people are expected to carry. An ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) tool is being used to identify “targets” and to direct enforcement activity as part of a ...

Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants. Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Watch here: "I did some research and found that there are some actual cyborgs walking around on Earth right now," Ceesay said in our Pass the Remote panel conversation. “I did some research and found ...

A Maryland board of elections backed down in the face of legal threat from conservative groups and released unredacted voter registration records belonging to an illegal immigrant who served as the ...

A legal fight is brewing over a Maryland county board of elections’ heavy redactions to the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who served as superintendent of Iowa’s largest school ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been deployed to Charlotte and Raleigh as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Agents have made more than 200 arrests in ...