The detection of ripples in space-time and the famous Schrödinger's Cat paradox feature in a list of 2016's physics breakthroughs.

Direct recordings have revealed what happens in our brains as we make sense of speech in a noisy environment, scientists say.

A selection of the year’s most riveting photographs.

Call off the race for Most Asinine Statement of 2016. We have a winner

A doctor with metastatic lung cancer confronts his own transition to full-time patient.

Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore drilling in the "vast majority" of northern US waters.

Alec Baldwin reveals what it takes to create his Donald J. Trump persona for “Saturday Night Live.”

Using a novel constitutional argument, advocates made a final plea to President Obama to shield up to 200,000 legal immigrants with minor criminal records from deportation.

A Japanese company creates a smart home device that doubles up as a "virtual wife" for single men.

While the connection between the war to depose Saddam and the election of 2016 is indirect, it is etched in history.