Category: Technology & Science

Can there be social networking among the pseudonymous? Robert W. Gehl talks with Lameth, leader of the dark web social networking site, Galaxy2.

FCC voted earlier this year to ease the way for municipal broadband. Now states are blocking them. Why? Money, of course. Leticia Miranda investigates.

Recent research by Anita Gohdes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim, suggests that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression. Sarah Myers West reports.

A patent for a non-firewall firewall that actually makes your system dumber? So good that a patent troll bought it and now you might, too. Daniel Nazer writes.

In a world obsessed with beauty, living with a facial disfigurement can be hard. Neil Steinberg explores the past and present to find out what it’s like to look different.

In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech. Julia Angwin schools you.

When celebrities suddenly care about rare diseases, what do people in the rare disease community think? Dr. Ricki Lewis explores.

Dr. Shaili Jain follows up on her research into PTSD with this interview.

At 42, Nic Fleming discovered that he has never really seen in three dimensions. Can new therapies based on video games fix his lazy eye and give him his first glimpse of life in 3D?

Researchers raise alarms about unknown health risks of GE’s Omniscan and Bayer’s Magnevist, drugs injected to get better MRI pictures that contain the heavy metal gadolinium.