Legacy tells the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask... more

In the summer of 2010, a mysterious computer virus called Stuxnet lands on the desk of Symantec cybersecurity analyst Liam... more

Even as recently as the early 1950s, we didn’t understand that there were different types of memory, or how the... more

What if you could design a spy plane that could be flown remotely and hover in the sky for hours,... more

Doctors once shied away from using opioids to treat chronic pain, citing the risk of addiction. But in the 1970s,... more

Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years... more

In the late 1970s, oil and natural gas fields across the U.S. were drying up, making the country increasingly dependent... more

Not everyone chooses burial or cremation after death. Some believe in cryonics, freezing their bodies in the hopes of being reanimated... more

No extreme weather phenomenon fascinates us more than tornadoes. For most of human history, very little was known about how... more

Hackers: the criminals who prey on our digital lives. Today they steal credit cards and personal information, or even commit... more