Zach Wener-Fligner

Update (11:05am): The probe has landed safely on the comet.

From H.G. Wells to Marty McFly, time travel has made for quintessential science fiction.

Since their introduction in the US in 2012, squishy, single-serving laundry detergent “pods” have become a consumer favorite, thanks to their convenience (no scooping, no pouring, no measuring). But the capsules are also a poison hazard to young children who chew on and ingest the capsules, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Like Steve Jobs’ jeans and black turtleneck, Mark Zuckerberg’s gray t-shirt and black hoodie have become a part of the public image of the man.

Does the fracking law voted in by a small Texas city ban a dangerous, environmentally debilitating engineering practice, or cripple the industry responsible for the biggest increases in middle-class American wealth in the past few years?

When the CTF Financial Centre skyscraper is completed in 2016, it will stand at 530 meters—not the highest-soaring building ever constructed, but on the shortlist of the world’s tallest towers.

The Next Billion is Quartz’s forum about the next billion people to come online for the first time, largely on mobile phones. It was held on Nov. 5 in New York with speakers including Microsoft Research’s danah boyd, Harvard Law School’s Larry Lessig, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. (Check here for the full schedule.) The hashtag is #qznextbillion. Our live blog below from the event is below.

The Vision G-Code, Mercedes Benz’s latest concept car, looks worthy of a high-tech superhero. It has a holographic grill, suicide backseat doors, and rearview cameras.

America has long prided itself in being a global hub for businesses and entrepreneurs. That pride, it turns out, may be losing its gusto, according to the World Bank’s 2015 report on the best places to do business.

Is America in a boom or a slump? The answer is that it depends, among other things, on where you look.

In the US and the European Union, alcoholic beverages aren’t required to be labeled with nutritional facts. That’s a problem, according to public health experts from The Royal Society for Public Health, a British nonprofit organization. The RSPH released a report this week calling for alcohol products in the EU to be labeled with caloric information.

“I’m proud to be gay,” Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote this morning in an essay published in Bloomberg, “and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”

Around the world, people have a pretty good sense of the life expectancy of their country’s inhabitants.

Our actions are often considered to be a product of our attitude or environment. But our genes may have more to do with this than we think. A new study found that a certain genetic makeup may be more prone to very violent behavior.

The commercial flight cabin as we know it may be on its way out.

Ever wonder how wealthy foreigners are faring in your country, compared to others around the world? HSBC just released its annual rankings of the best places to live as an expat, which it calculated using a wide range of factors from salaries and career potential to family life and other quality-of-life indicators.

On first glance, Warren Buffet has had a rough week.

Defaulting on your student loans is a good thing to avoid.

Feel like you’re caught in the crossfire in the mobile-phone war between Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS? Each company would like to help you come over, unhurt, to their side.

Good news for the steak-and-red-wine guys: moderate drinking and meat consumption may increase male fertility, according to studies presented this morning at a meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Smartphones let you do many things conveniently—check email, get directions, buy pizza. But chances are you’ve never realized that your smartphone can also detect very high-energy cosmic rays that hit the Earth from space.

Where can you find the strongest bastions of capitalist ideals? In Britain, where they were written into economic theory 250 years ago? In the US, where free-market thought is practically religious dogma?

You’re being watched online—either by a government surveillance project, a company that wants to document your online habits to sell you products, or to sell information about you to another company.

The historian James Truslow Adams characterized the “American Dream” in his 1931 Epic of America as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.”