Science

Inspired Stories 07/01/2019

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that its next mission is to send a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn's largest moon Titan. NASA scientists are saying that Titan is a suitable choice to ...

News 06/12/2019

Three satellites for the Canadian Space Agency's Earth-monitoring Radarsat program were launched into orbit from California on Wednesday, June 12, aboard a reused SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket lifted off from fog-shrouded Vandenberg Air Force ...

America 06/11/2019

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...

News 06/07/2019

From bags to bottles, every year about 13 million tons of plastic flows into our oceans, according to a U.N. report published in 2018. If the situation continues, our oceans could contain more plastic than ...

News 05/28/2019

A Southern California aquarium has built one of the world's largest habitats for the surreal and mythical sea dragons, found only in a small area of temperate waters off the southern and western coasts of ...

News 02/07/2019

Soaring temperatures confirm ongoing climate change, says World Meteorological Organization

News 01/05/2019

Doctors puzzled by this man's illness

News 01/02/2019

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

News 12/24/2018

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

News 12/22/2018

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

News 12/20/2018

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

News 12/20/2018

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

News 12/20/2018

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 ...

News 12/18/2018

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

News 12/18/2018

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

News 12/11/2018

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

News 12/05/2018

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

News 12/05/2018

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

News 12/04/2018

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

Australia & Oceania 06/26/2019

A self-driving shuttle bus service has taken to the roads on a route around a university district in South Australia as a part of a five-year trial. South Australia is the one of the first to ...

U.S. 06/13/2019

Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government's agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last ...

Tech 06/13/2019

Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his ...

Tech 05/30/2019

U.S. stocks moved broadly higher in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday following two days of losses.The early gains are helping to cut some of the broader market's weekly losses, but it is still on ...

Tech 05/30/2019

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is calling for talks to resolve ongoing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing and is urging the world to accept China's technological prowess.Mahathir says the U.S. cannot expect to always ...

Tech 05/28/2019

U.S. stocks edged higher on Wall Street Tuesday, picking up where they left off before the long holiday weekend.Technology stocks led the early gains. Microsoft rose 1.3% and Cisco rose 1.8%. A mix of consumer-focused ...

Tech 05/28/2019

Exhibitors at Computex - Asia's largest tech show - are expected to show how ordinary devices can use artificial intelligence

Tech 05/27/2019

In an exam room at East Tennessee Children's Hospital, all eyes were on 14-year-old Tinsley Allen as he became the first patient in Tennessee and one of the first in the nation to be fitted ...

Tech 05/27/2019

Circus Maximus Experience opened in Rome this week, offering visitors a chance to relive the famed arena's ancient splendors through augmented and virtual reality

Tech 05/25/2019

Before Instagram and Facebook, before selfies and filters that perfect selfies, there was Andy Warhol, using his art to imbue friends, family, celebrities — even himself — with a certain mystique.A retrospective of Warhol's work ...

Tech 05/24/2019

Greenbelt, MD, May 24, 2019 --( PR.com )-- Origin Wireless™ Inc. (Origin™ in short) today announced its unique wearable-free elderly care well-being monitoring solution “LifeLog-as-a-Service™” (LaaS™ in short) based on Origin's patented Time Reversal Machine™ ...

Tech 05/24/2019

Facebook's former security chief is disagreeing with calls to break up the social network.Instead, Alex Stamos believes the way to fix problems is for Mark Zuckerberg to step aside as CEO. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and ...

Tech 05/24/2019

The highest pay packages go to CEOs at health care companies. For the third time in four years, chief executives in the health care field led the S&P 500 in terms of total compensation. The ...

Tech 05/24/2019

Did you get a 7% raise last year? Congratulations, yours was in line with what CEOs at the biggest companies got. But for chief executives, that 7% was roughly $800,000.Pay for CEOs at S&P 500 ...

Tech 05/23/2019

NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight.Multiple drones took ...

Tech 05/23/2019

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that aims to combat the illegal robocalls torturing Americans .Though the measure wouldn't eliminate all unwanted calls, it would give regulators more tools to go after scammers. It ...

Tech 05/22/2019

Despite pressure from civil rights groups, activist investors and its own employees, Amazon said Wednesday that shareholders at an annual meeting in Seattle voted against proposals related to two major social issues: climate change and ...

Tech 05/22/2019

A smartphone app developed by Japanese police is being widely downloaded by women trying to protect themselves from gropers on packed rush-hour trains.The "Digi Police" app was originally issued by Tokyo police three years ago, ...

Tech 05/22/2019

Only hours before women marched through many U.S. cities in January, Christopher Cleary set off a manhunt when he posted a Facebook message threatening to kill "as many girls as I see" in retaliation for ...

Tech 05/20/2019

Search giant says move in compliance with Trump administration's blacklisting of world's second biggest smartphone maker as national security threat

U.S. 07/16/2019

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, on Tuesday, July 16, unveiled astronaut Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Armstrong’s spacesuit is back on display after 13 years ...

Inspired Stories 07/01/2019

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that its next mission is to send a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn's largest moon Titan. NASA scientists are saying that Titan is a suitable choice to ...

U.S. 06/18/2019

As rivals such as China and Russia continue space exploration and development, including development of military capabilities in space, it has become imperative for the United States to stay ahead of the world. A significant ...

Space 05/31/2019

A group of international astronomers said they have spotted a “Forbidden” planet closely orbiting a star. The newly discovered world is three-times the size of Earth and 920 light-years away from our planet. This exoplanet was ...

Space 05/22/2019

The U.S. Department of Defense has acknowledged that it is still investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena," also identified as UFOs. It doesn't imply the Pentagon acknowledged the presence of extraterrestrials, but a spokesman told the ...

Space 04/26/2019

The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that's sending a shudder through the ...

Space 04/26/2019

It's become clear that something doesn't add up in the cosmos. Every second, the universe grows larger. Actually, it expands much more quickly than it should. For some time now, observations of the early universe made ...

Space 04/12/2019

The team behind the Israeli spacecraft that crashed into the moon has released a preliminary technical assessment of what went wrong. SpaceIL, the start-up that sought to make history with the first privately funded lunar landing, ...

Space 04/12/2019

A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment. University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian Professor Larry Kimura named the cosmic object, The ...

Space 04/10/2019

A black hole swallows stars, planets, gas, dust and all forms of electromagnetic radiation

Space 03/29/2019

Spacewalking astronauts are conducting more battery work outside the International Space Station.NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch (Cook) floated outside Friday, a week after the first spacewalk to install new and stronger batteries for ...

Space 03/13/2019

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 ...

Space 03/12/2019

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

Space 03/08/2019

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

Space 03/07/2019

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

Space 03/03/2019

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 ...

Space 03/03/2019

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

Space 03/02/2019

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" ...

Space 03/01/2019

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 ...

Space 02/15/2019

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 ...

Europe 07/02/2019

Conservationists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are attempting to harness plant energy to oversee remote ecosystems. They are working on a project that could enable a plant “to take a selfie.”  A maidenhair fern ...

America 06/11/2019

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...

News 06/07/2019

From bags to bottles, every year about 13 million tons of plastic flows into our oceans, according to a U.N. report published in 2018. If the situation continues, our oceans could contain more plastic than ...

Enviroment 05/30/2019

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is slashing the size of a body that oversees environmental policy, effectively reducing the role of non-governmental organizations.The decree issued Wednesday cuts the size of the National Council of the Environment ...

Enviroment 05/29/2019

New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water.The ...

Enviroment 05/29/2019

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in "great ...

Enviroment 05/29/2019

Atlantic Richfield wants to build a second treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former mining pit in Butte that was closed more than 35 years ago, ...

Enviroment 05/28/2019

Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tons (3,300 tons) of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich ...

Enviroment 05/27/2019

A non-governmental group that has monitored the Amazon rainforest for two decades said Monday that the pace of deforestation increased 20% in the most recent nine months.Imazon said satellite imagery showed the region lost 2,169 ...

Enviroment 05/27/2019

Cleanup work has resumed at a former chemical plant in central Michigan that's become one of the country's costliest Superfund sites.An Environmental Protection Agency official, Thomas Alcamo, told MLive.com that it could still take another ...

Enviroment 05/24/2019

Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming Friday, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.In Rio de Janeiro, a small group of students ...

Enviroment 05/23/2019

Renewable energy activists urged Montana regulators on Thursday to reject a utility's request to add a charge for homeowners who generate surplus electricity from their own solar panels.Over the past two decades, about 2,300 NorthWestern ...

Europe 05/23/2019

The UK government is taking steps to curb plastic pollution. Starting April 2020 plastic straws, cotton buds, and plastic stirrers, will only be provided under strict guidelines, for medical or scientific reasons. As part of the ...

Enviroment 05/23/2019

Ozone is critical to life, limiting the amount of harmful ultraviolet solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface

Enviroment 05/22/2019

Deals were coming together Wednesday as Gov. Tim Walz and top legislative leaders prepared for a special session to finish work on the state's next two-year budget.The Democratic governor, GOP Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka ...

Enviroment 05/22/2019

An Australian state government leader intervened on Wednesday to fast-track a proposed coal mine days after voters rejected tougher action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the country's general election.The Carmichael mine proposed by India's ...

Enviroment 05/21/2019

A property owner's association is warning residents about the unhealthy air near an underground fire that's been burning for 10 months at a former unlicensed dump in northwestern Arkansas.Crews began fighting the fire Saturday at ...

Enviroment 05/21/2019

Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that provides $750,000 to study how to best help impacted communities if the four federal dams on the Snake River are breached.The four dams are blamed for reducing ...

Enviroment 05/21/2019

The new-look Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold its inaugural meeting on Tuesday as it begins rewriting state rules to emphasize public safety and the environment instead of energy production.It's the first time ...

Enviroment 05/20/2019

Xcel Energy said Monday the Minneapolis-based utility plans to retire its two remaining coal plants in the Upper Midwest by 2030, a decade earlier than scheduled, bringing praise from environmental groups.The company also announced plans ...