Science

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 ...

17:43, 24 Nov 2018

Located between royal tombs at the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings, Al-Assasif necropolis is burial site of nobles and officials close to the pharaohs

20:44, 18 Jan 2019

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap recently fired two executives after one allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a contract worker.The newspaper says an outside investigation found that Snap's head of global security, ...

11:15, 18 Jan 2019

A Duke University team expects to have a product available for election year that will allow television networks to offer real-time fact checks onscreen when a politician makes a questionable claim during a speech or ...

17:24, 17 Jan 2019

Netflix's video streaming service added in more subscribers than ever during the crucial holiday season, but the company signaled its growth is slowing in the U.S. as it begins to roll out double-digit price increases ...

13:03, 16 Jan 2019

Several House Republicans asked T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint how they share their users' cellphone location data, citing a recent report that telecoms are selling that information to shadowy companies without customer knowledge.The lawmakers said ...

09:15, 16 Jan 2019

YouTube also says it is drawing the line on content that "intends to incite violence or encourage dangerous or illegal activities" that have a risk of serious harm or death

17:27, 15 Jan 2019

The state of Michigan on Tuesday announced the final round of "mobility" grants it gives out to encourage pilot projects to help transport seniors, the disabled and veterans with autonomous vehicles and other technology.The nearly ...

17:25, 15 Jan 2019

A wheeled robot named Marty is rolling into nearly 500 grocery stores to alert employees if it encounters spilled granola, squashed tomatoes or a broken jar of mayonnaise.But there could be a human watching from ...

05:20, 15 Jan 2019

The founder of Huawei, in a new effort to allay Western security concerns, said Tuesday that the Chinese tech giant would not comply with Chinese government requests to disclose confidential information about its foreign customers ...

12:01, 14 Jan 2019

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):11:45 a.m.Stocks are trading lower on Wall Street after China reported a surprise drop in exports last month, renewing concerns about that country's economy.Technology and health ...

11:24, 12 Jan 2019

A Dallas man is the latest Holocaust survivor to have his story recorded in such a way that generations to come will be able to ask his image questions.Max Glauben lost his mother, father and ...

09:42, 11 Jan 2019

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):___9:35 a.m.Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in banks and technology companies.Wells Fargo lost 1 percent and chipmaker Micron Technology ...

07:08, 11 Jan 2019

China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon's far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the ...

15:14, 10 Jan 2019

The CES gadget show is full of new devices promising to make life a little bit easier for harried parents.There are artificially intelligent toys to keep kids occupied, educate them and get them to brush ...

21:51, 09 Jan 2019

As its new combine works fields, it gathers data about soil conditions and monitors how corn and other crops are being harvested to reduce waste and improve efficiency

15:14, 09 Jan 2019

Too often people die of an opioid overdose because no one's around to notice they're in trouble. Now scientists are creating a smartphone app that beams sound waves to measure breathing — and summon help ...

11:35, 09 Jan 2019

Norwegian government is currently discussing measures to reduce potential vulnerabilities in its telecoms industry ahead of the upgrade

11:07, 09 Jan 2019

Cyberattacks on elections, public infrastructure and national security are increasingly being seen as the new normal, according to a global survey on cybersecurity. And in some of the world's larges

07:05, 09 Jan 2019

Every year at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, we get a glimpse of what vehicles may be — and what they could do. The event has also become an annual progress ...

09:57, 08 Jan 2019

CES is the place startups and established tech giants alike go to unveil their latest tech gizmos.So what are 181-year-old stalwarts like John Deere and Procter & Gamble doing at the world's largest technology show?These ...

09:17, 08 Jan 2019

The CES 2019 gadget show is revving up in Las Vegas. Here are the latest findings and observations from Associated Press reporters on the ground as technology's biggest trade event gets underway.THE CURTAIN LIFTSThe show ...

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 ...

09:52, 24 Dec 2018

A Russian cosmonaut who explored a mysterious hole in a capsule docked to the International Space Station says Russian law enforcement agencies are investigating what caused the opening. Sergei Prokopyev said Monday that investigators were looking ...

01:36, 20 Dec 2018

Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station.A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Sergey Prokopyev and German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space ...

12:25, 18 Dec 2018

NASA's first flight to the moon is marking its 50th anniversary.FILE - This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 ...

10:48, 18 Dec 2018

SpaceX officials say the mission abort was triggered by the Falcon 9 flight computer, but no further details were provided

16:20, 17 Dec 2018

Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they've nicknamed the pink cosmic body "Farout."The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery Monday."Farout" is about 120 astronomical units ...

10:36, 17 Dec 2018

Time capsule of three digital discs containing thousands of files was ceremoniously placed within the space pod

23:17, 13 Dec 2018

Comet 46P/Wirtanen, the brightest comet we'll see this year, will pass by Earth on Sunday

13:36, 13 Dec 2018

Test flight of the tourism spaceship signals a new age of civilian space travel

06:49, 13 Dec 2018

Japan's space agency says more than 200 photos taken by two small rovers on an asteroid show no signs of a smooth area for the planned touchdown of a spacecraft early next year. The Japan Aerospace ...

16:01, 17 Jan 2019

An influential Democratic congresswoman wants to know why the Environmental Protection Agency opted against filing formal comments with state regulators when they considered whether to issue a key permit for the PolyMet copper-nickel mine in ...

22:12, 16 Jan 2019

A hamburger a week, but no more — that's about as much red meat people should eat to do what's best for their health and the planet, according to a report seeking to overhaul the ...

20:01, 16 Jan 2019

Currently, nearly a billion people are hungry and another 2 billion are eating too much of the wrong foods, causing epidemics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes

17:07, 14 Jan 2019

The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday that state law does not allow oil and gas regulators to make health and environmental protection their top priority, prompting Democrats who control the Legislature to call for changing ...

10:58, 14 Jan 2019

The world's thirst for fresh water is causing a salty problem.According to a scientific study released Monday, desalination plants worldwide are producing 142 million cubic meters (5,014 million cubic feet) of brine daily — about ...

15:40, 13 Jan 2019

State agencies in Minnesota often play an outsized role in bitter fights between environmentalists and industry — such as mining proposals or anti-pollution regulations for agriculture — and have sometimes drawn frustration across the political ...

17:26, 10 Jan 2019

Heads up, oil and gas executives.New Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made it clear Thursday he intends to grant more local control in decisions about where and how the state's $32 billion oil and gas industry ...

18:55, 09 Jan 2019

Wyoming should continue to fight to enable more U.S. coal exports overseas, the state's new governor said in a state of the state speech Wednesday that also called for more spending restraint and better returns ...

16:32, 08 Jan 2019

The California wildfire that devastated the small town of Paradise in November was the costliest natural disaster in 2018, with Munich Re reinsurer saying climate change was making fires more common

11:56, 08 Jan 2019

Colorado takes a formal step to the left Tuesday with the gubernatorial inauguration of Democrat Jared Polis, whose overwhelming election victory and party's consolidation of legislative control promise ambitious changes for energy and environmental regulation, ...

21:45, 07 Jan 2019

Group of more than 1,400 iguanas have been reintroduced to Santiago Island around two centuries after they disappeared from there

18:00, 07 Jan 2019

Environmentalists and beekeepers say bee population being decimated by massive and intensive use of chemical pesticides to protect region's biggest cash crop

16:48, 07 Jan 2019

Environmental groups in Oregon announced Monday they have withdrawn from talks on how to manage the state's rebounding wolf population because of what they called a "broken" process, and concerns that state wildlife officials want ...

12:57, 07 Jan 2019

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is making appointments to agencies that oversee childhood wellbeing, environmental protection, state police and state personnel decisions.The director of a San Francisco-based anti-poverty group was appointed Friday to lead ...

21:54, 04 Jan 2019

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has agreed to a specific timeline to consider whether to ban the trapping of the imperiled Humboldt marten.The Humboldt marten is a cat-like creature that's related to the ...

17:38, 03 Jan 2019

A coalition of environmental groups filed a notice of intent to sue on Thursday, warning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency it must hold Utah and Arizona accountable for missing deadlines to submit plans to clean ...

02:32, 03 Jan 2019

The hulking remains of a cargo ship rise up through the water, listing to one side with a rusting hull exposed, its glory days of sailing the world's seas and oceans long gone.This is just ...

19:15, 31 Dec 2018

Residents in a rural Wisconsin county are split over a Chicago developer's plan to work with two Wisconsin utilities to build a solar farm that would include more than 1 million solar panels. ...

16:55, 31 Dec 2018

Whenever you dump something down the drain, it goes to the city of St. Cloud's NEW (Nutrients, Energy and Water) Recovery Facility, where nutrients are recovered, waste is treated, and clean water is sent back ...

14:39, 27 Dec 2018

Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday named much of her Cabinet, including officials who will be involved in two of her top priorities — cleaning up drinking water and improving roads.Liesl Eichler Clark, who worked ...

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 ...

07:30, 26 Sep 2018

In daily life, it can be seen how rain, overflowing with momentum, can reach flooding places and cause disasters of some kind.  Phenomena such as hail or tornadoes are often accompanied by heavy rains, sometimes of ...

12:52, 26 Aug 2018

One of the most exciting parts of a renovation project is the thrill of what you might uncover. While home remodeling shows would lead you to believe there are sparkling pine floorboards underneath every shabby carpet, ...

12:52, 26 Aug 2018

From a very young age, Purnima would fully describe the process for manufacturing incense, — something a girl her age and not in the incense business wouldn’t have any knowledge about that unless she did ...

12:50, 26 Aug 2018

None of us knows when life will take an unexpected turn. But what really matters is how we react to that kind of situation. Linda Walker, 12, went to North Carolina-based Camp Pisgah in the summer ...

12:49, 26 Aug 2018

Who doesn’t like a bargain? You go somewhere expecting one thing, and you return home with more than you thought you were going to get. Of course, this mostly applies to shopping. When it comes to ...

12:48, 26 Aug 2018

The German government says it has made no preparations for the possibility that aliens might land in the European country. In a response to questions from opposition Green Party lawmaker Dieter Janecek, the government said "there ...