Science

11:00, 07 Feb 2019

Soaring temperatures confirm ongoing climate change, says World Meteorological Organization

19:01, 04 Jan 2019

Doctors puzzled by this man's illness

13:56, 02 Jan 2019

Researchers said they should now be better able to estimate the risk of future cholera outbreaks in regions like Yemen, giving health authorities more time to intervene

04:47, 24 Dec 2018

Sue, named for paleontologist Sue Hendrickson who discovered it, arrived as the star attraction in Stanley Hall at the Field Museum in 2000

05:32, 22 Dec 2018

New types of coral found in mysterious deep-sea world in Australia

14:57, 20 Dec 2018

Paleontologists found fossils years ago in a marble quarry in the Italian Alps; creature lived 200 million years ago

12:48, 20 Dec 2018

Cancellation, following two previous launch attempts this week, came as thunderstorms and wind gusts swirled around the launch site

00:06, 20 Dec 2018

How do you measure a chicken's happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening?To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, researchers at ...

16:29, 18 Dec 2018

One of the world's best-known dinosaur fossils, Sue took 1o move and reassemble according to new understanding of the species

21:55, 17 Dec 2018

Surprising discovery that dinosaurs and their bird descendants were not the only creatures to boast feathers and that feathers likely appeared much longer ago than previously known

23:25, 10 Dec 2018

Scientists have drilled 2.5 kilometers beneath the seabed and found vast underground forests of 'deep life,' including microbes that persist for thousands, maybe millions of years, researchers say

21:32, 04 Dec 2018

'It just shows you that ... they're capable of creating new solving strategies,' one researcher says

20:00, 04 Dec 2018

Case, published in The Lancet medical journal, involved connecting veins from the donor uterus with the recipient's veins, as well as linking arteries, ligaments and vaginal canals

09:46, 04 Dec 2018

Officials say more than 60 percent of those infected in world’s second-worst Ebola outbreak are women

08:48, 29 Nov 2018

Meanwhile, attendees of Hong Kong summit blast Chinese scientist's claim of creating world's first gene-edited twin babies as 'irresponsible'

00:31, 29 Nov 2018

A group of leading scientists has declared that it's still too soon to try making permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations, as a Chinese researcher claims to have done.The scientists ...

07:38, 28 Nov 2018

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered eight limestone sarcophagi with mummies inside about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of the capital Cairo.The Antiquities Ministry said the mummies dating to the Late Period (664-332 B.C.) are covered ...

13:28, 27 Nov 2018

An online petition of 122 scientists calls the experiment 'unethical' and 'crazy,' while Chinese authorities, university and hospitals issue string of denials

04:57, 26 Nov 2018

A new fitness trend originated in Sweden, gains popularity in America

20:44, 25 Nov 2018

A hiker camping in remote Stewart Island alerted authorities to the discovery. All of the 145 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote New Zealand beach have died. However, conservation workers are hoping to save some ...

16:30, 19 Mar 2019

Why did Facebook air live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting for 17 minutes? Didn't anyone alert the company while it was happening? Facebook says no. According to its deputy general counsel, Chris Sonderby, none ...

13:08, 19 Mar 2019

Facebook is settling five lawsuits alleging that its advertising systems enabled discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads.That clears one big legal issue for the social network but leaves others, including government investigations in the ...

10:17, 19 Mar 2019

Gov. Ron DeSantis got a little bit of schooling on coding and computer science.The Republican governor took part Tuesday in an event promoting computer skills in Florida schools. DeSantis spent a few minutes huddling with ...

09:18, 18 Mar 2019

Apple has unveiled a new iPad that's thinner and slightly larger than its current entry-level tablet.The new iPad Air will cost $499 and sport a screen that measures 10.5 inches diagonally. That compares with the ...

06:13, 18 Mar 2019

Facebook's effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find original reporting.The service, launched last year, ...

00:52, 15 Mar 2019

Tokyo's Olympics may become known as the "Robot Games."Organizers on Friday showed off robots that will be used at the new National Stadium to provide assistance for fans using wheelchairs.Tokyo Olympic official Masaaki Komiya pointed ...

19:25, 13 Mar 2019

Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve the issue.According to Facebook's status page , the outages started around 11 a.m. EDT on ...

16:15, 13 Mar 2019

AT&T is raising prices for its DirecTV Now streaming TV service, while removing some networks from the cable-like television package.The changes come just weeks after a U.S. appeals court upheld the company's Time Warner takeover. ...

15:20, 13 Mar 2019

15:20, 13 Mar 2019

11:36, 13 Mar 2019

A handful of Verizon customers will soon have faster wireless service — but they'll have to pay $10 a month more.Verizon says it'll flip the switch next month on a much-hyped, next-generation "5G" phone network ...

07:50, 13 Mar 2019

Modern technology and an old-school friendship are at the heart of the youthful Broadway musical "Be More Chill."The internet and social media helped spread the word but it took off thanks to the longtime kinship ...

17:13, 12 Mar 2019

A Kentucky Senate committee has endorsed a bill to slash the salary of the state's chief technology official by about $175,000.The bill that advanced Tuesday takes aim at Charles Grindle's salary as the state's chief ...

15:10, 12 Mar 2019

Facebook, already the leader in enabling you to share photos, videos and links, now wants to be a force in messaging, commerce, payments and just about everything else you do online. The company's ambitions harken to ...

14:33, 12 Mar 2019

A highway shoulder in Venezuela's capital has turned into one of the city's most sought-after destinations. It's one of the few places residents could find the slightest cellphone signal strong enough to reach loved ones ...

12:54, 12 Mar 2019

One of General Motors' first self-driving test vehicles is going on display at an automotive history museum in suburban Detroit.The Henry Ford history attraction announced Tuesday that it has acquired a modified pre-production Chevrolet Bolt ...

09:33, 12 Mar 2019

We usually think of virtual reality (VR) technology as something recently created at the pinnacle of our modern science, but as a matter of fact, a fully immersive and multi-sensory machine called Sensorama was introduced ...

14:34, 11 Mar 2019

Puerto Rico's governor said Monday that he hopes a new technology center can help the U.S. territory incorporate artificial intelligence and internet -connected devices as it rebuilds from Hurricane Maria.Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the lab ...

09:35, 10 Mar 2019

The head of the U.N. women's agency is calling for the revolution in technology to be used to benefit the world's poor, and especially women, who will not achieve gender equality without "the giant leap ...

10:06, 09 Mar 2019

Mark Zuckerberg's abrupt Wednesday declaration of a new "privacy vision " for social networking was for many people a sort of Rorschach test.Looked at one way, the manifesto read as an apology of sorts for ...

12:32, 13 Mar 2019

NASA's massive new rocket won't be ready for a moon shot next year, the space agency's top official told Congress on Wednesday.Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he's considering switching to commercial rockets to keep the June ...

18:55, 12 Mar 2019

The lunar samples were collected by astronauts during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions

05:43, 08 Mar 2019

The unmanned Dragon capsule is to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean later Friday

21:45, 06 Mar 2019

Anne McClain and Christina Koch will be supported by Kristen Facciol on the ground

15:17, 03 Mar 2019

A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to getting back in the business of launching ...

09:29, 03 Mar 2019

The docking was carried out autonomously by the Crew Dragon capsule, as the three astronauts on board the International Space Station watched

03:28, 02 Mar 2019

America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size test dummy, named Ripley after the lead character in the "Alien" ...

11:46, 01 Mar 2019

Scientists say images of craters taken by European and American space probes show there likely once was a planet-wide system of underground lakes on Mars. Data collected by NASA and ESA probes orbiting the red planet ...

11:46, 15 Feb 2019

Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly’s immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday. Scientists don’t know if ...

16:45, 09 Jan 2019

Satellite data may help track progress on development goals

05:02, 04 Jan 2019

Chang’e-4 launched Jade Rabbit 2 rover as part of China’s ambitious efforts to match US and Russia as global space power

23:44, 03 Jan 2019

China's space agency has posted a photo of a lunar rover making tracks on the surface shortly after leaving a spacecraft that had made the first-ever landing on the moon's far side.The Jade Rabbit 2 ...

23:28, 03 Jan 2019

Piano-sized probe is traveling deep into the ring of celestial bodies known as the Kuiper Belt looking for small, icy moons

05:53, 03 Jan 2019

China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China — have sent ...

14:52, 02 Jan 2019

A NASA spacecraft traveling 4 billion miles from Earth has sent back its first close-up pictures of the most distant celestial object ever explored, and it looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima Thule, as the small, ...

19:36, 31 Dec 2018

NASA's New Horizons probe is to fly by the most distant body ever explored

10:53, 31 Dec 2018

A tiny, icy world a billion miles beyond Pluto is getting a New Year's Day visitor. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past a mysterious object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday. ...

14:51, 28 Dec 2018

The cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, is about the size of the U.S. capital, Washington, and orbits in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond the dwarf planet, Pluto

16:30, 26 Dec 2018

Researchers compared data on US male astronauts and a similarly fit group — pro athletes — and found neither group has higher rates than the other of death overall or of early deaths

03:51, 25 Dec 2018

On April 3, A.D. 33, when Jesus was executed, five planets in the solar system moved to position, forming the image of a man on a cross. According to many researchers, April 3, A.D. 33, is ...

08:20, 19 Mar 2019

Fish in an Ohio river that became synonymous with pollution when it caught fire in 1969 are now safe to eat, federal environmental regulators say.The easing of fish consumption restrictions on the Cuyahoga River in ...

07:43, 19 Mar 2019

An expired date on an egg carton. Browning avocados. The Chinese takeout from last week. They're all foods likely destined for the trash.If you're hoping to reduce household food waste, experts say there are two ...

12:56, 16 Mar 2019

Some Minnesota cities are grappling with how to reduce the amount of chloride being released from their wastewater treatment plants into lakes and streams, threatening aquatic life.The state estimates that about 100 municipal wastewater treatment ...

20:27, 15 Mar 2019

The winter storm that blasted through the West this week knocked out a mine wastewater treatment plant in Colorado, prompting officials to warn Friday against using water from two rivers downstream in New Mexico.Fluctuating electrical ...

16:04, 15 Mar 2019

Around 1,000 Minnesota students skipped school to gather on the steps of the state Capitol in St. Paul as part of global protests by young people demanding that governments take swift action to fight climate ...

09:29, 15 Mar 2019

The Latest on the Trump administration's changes to protections for the ground-dwelling sage grouse in the U.S. West (all times local): 8:20 a.m. The Trump administration has finalized changes to sweeping land use plans for Western states ...

14:05, 14 Mar 2019

The environmentalist group Sea Shepherd says it found the badly decomposed body of what appeared to be a vaquita porpoise, one of perhaps only 10 that remain in the world.The group said Thursday the remains ...

20:03, 13 Mar 2019

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced three long-term goals Wednesday for cleaning up the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site in southwestern Colorado.The goals call for improving water quality in four sections of rivers and ...

13:12, 13 Mar 2019

Fiat Chrysler is voluntarily recalling 862,520 vehicles in the U.S. because they don't meet the country's emission standards.The Environmental Protection Agency says that the recall is the result of in-use emissions investigations it performed and ...

21:30, 12 Mar 2019

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature considers the hammerhead shark an endangered species

11:04, 12 Mar 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency has pledged more than $16 million annually for the continued cleanup of toxic mine waste at the heavily polluted Tar Creek Superfund Site in northeastern Oklahoma.Superfund is a law that gives ...

10:33, 09 Mar 2019

An idea developed by indigenous peoples and environmentalists in Canada to protest an oil pipeline in 2015 has been embraced recently by climate change activists in the U.S.They call themselves valve turners, because they break ...

15:47, 07 Mar 2019

For decades, there were tales from fishermen and tourists, even lots of photos, of a mysterious killer whale that just didn't look like all the others, but scientists had never seen one. Now they have. An international ...

14:21, 07 Mar 2019

The public advocate says a proposed 145-mile (230-kilometer) transmission line across western Maine is "in the best interest" of electricity customers thanks to incentives negotiated with Central Maine Power.Barry Hobbins told state utility regulators Thursday ...

01:18, 07 Mar 2019

A tiny religious sect is emerging as a major impediment for a controversial plan to connect modern Jerusalem and its historic Old City with a cable car network.Other objections — from Palestinian residents, environmentalists, urban ...

18:27, 05 Mar 2019

Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature took the first step Tuesday toward an overhaul of state oil and gas regulations, pushing ahead despite objections from Republicans and industry representatives who say the changes are being rushed.The Senate Transportation ...

07:22, 05 Mar 2019

Philippine authorities said Monday that they found more than 1,500 live turtles stuffed inside luggage at Manila's airport.The various types of turtles were found Sunday inside four pieces of left-behind luggage of a Filipino passenger ...

18:55, 04 Mar 2019

Gov. Tim Walz set an ambitious goal Monday for Minnesota to get 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050, though his plan was short on specifics of how to meet that target.Walz ...

12:54, 03 Mar 2019

Sioux Falls officials say the city's deal allowing a biofuel company to use the methane gas released from its landfill is saving taxpayers money and creating cleaner air.The Argus Leader reports that the city recently ...

21:27, 02 Mar 2019

Environmentalists are taking over a faded Nevada mining town, but many locals don't seem to mind.The Nature Conservancy has become the largest private landowner in the Nye County community of Beatty, where the national organization ...

10:37, 13 Mar 2019

In our collective minds, the word mirage evokes images of deceptive water puddles that lurk in the distance and then disappear when approached, or those illusory oases that are commonly seen in the deserts – ...

07:12, 07 Mar 2019

What causes birth defects? Why do some people suffer miserable, incurable diseases? One theory claims that the outcome of actions performed in past lives are to blame. And who does this theory belong to? The ...

11:41, 25 Feb 2019

"Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, ...

21:50, 21 Feb 2019

“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Pythagorean theorem; the other, the auric ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.” – Johannes ...

09:20, 19 Feb 2019

Today, many atheists believe only in science and oppose the existence of God. However, the famous scientists, the "fathers of modern science," claim their belief in God. True scientists will not arbitrarily make conclusions, they will not ...

11:42, 27 Jan 2019

Reincarnation is rebirth. Being born again implies transition from life to death and back again; a continuous cycle. According to both Eastern and Western religions, a human being consists of two parts; body and soul. ...

11:43, 12 Jan 2019

In the wake of Stephen Hawking’s incredible impact on the world of science, there’s a new kid in town. A child prodigy from America is taking the science world by storm. William Maillis  aged 12, ...

21:20, 09 Jan 2019

Repeating waves of this length are a mystery but not likely a sign of life

11:24, 01 Dec 2018

Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part I – Existence vs Non Existence Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part II – Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man Link to: The Universe, Life ...

08:58, 01 Dec 2018

Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part I – Existence vs Non Existence Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part II – Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man Link to: The Universe, Life ...

04:01, 26 Nov 2018

Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part I - Existence vs Non Existence Link to: The Universe, Life and the Human Body, Part II – Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS Specifically, there are ...

00:14, 24 Nov 2018

Link to Part I of this series - Existence vs Non Existence Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served under the Roman emperor Julius Caesar as designer and creator of his army’s artillery machines. Later ...

10:36, 15 Nov 2018

The Lycurgus Cup It is a 4th century Roman glass cage cup made of dichroic glass, which holds a special property. The cup lights up in red when lit from behind and green when lit from ...

05:47, 12 Nov 2018

In the 1970s, a British housewife earned fame as a composer and pianist with music she said was communicated to her by the spirits of dead, famous composers. Some musical experts of the time were convinced ...

05:30, 10 Nov 2018

Rare fish or ancient myths, Sirens are part of one of the most neglected groups in modern zoology. Is there a possibility that hominids who adapted to abyssal conditions really exist? "The previous day, when the ...

03:44, 09 Nov 2018

Sumer’s city Eridu was first inhabited in 5400 BC in the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). It is the earliest civilization known on Earth, it was also an inexplicably advanced civilization. The Sumerians ...

11:33, 01 Nov 2018

‘I worked for a blue-chip chemical company as research in polymer chemistry. And I was working in the last and had an accident with a desiccator -those big glass bell jar, and as I’m taking ...

03:21, 24 Oct 2018

As devoutly as Ancient Egyptians prayed to the rising sun for a blessed harvest, in modern days we have found our prayers answered through man-made gods. Whereas the Egyptians found their sustenance in solar orbit, ...

12:39, 22 Oct 2018

Did you know that trees talk to each other?! From the biggest and oldest trees forming the canopy to the shrubberies and seedlings in the understory, there is a language that sustains a forest. And it ...

11:47, 22 Oct 2018

Meditation is becoming more common in the West. When Transcendental Meditation gained popularity in the ’60s and ’70s, it was still a little “out there” for mainstream America. But nowadays even many hospitals offer meditation ...