Enviroment

Inspired Stories 07/01/19, 22:09

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 ...

Trending 06/21/19, 14:43

An Australian inventor has developed a new way of treating and preserving milk—without using chemicals or heat. As ‘Udderly’ incredible this may be, the new method will allow milk to stay fresh for over 60 days. Since ...

News 06/12/19, 23:55

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 ...

News 05/28/19, 17:56

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 02/07/19, 16:00

Soaring temperatures confirm ongoing climate change, says World Meteorological Organization

News 01/05/19, 00:01

Doctors puzzled by this man's illness

News 01/02/19, 18:56

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 12/24/18, 09:47

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

News 12/22/18, 10:32

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

News 12/20/18, 19:57

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

News 12/20/18, 17:48

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

News 12/20/18, 05:06

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 12/18/18, 21:29

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

News 12/18/18, 02:55

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 12/11/18, 04:25

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 12/05/18, 02:32

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

News 12/05/18, 01:00

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 12/04/18, 14:46

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

News 11/29/18, 13:48

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

News 11/29/18, 05:31

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 ...

Australia & Oceania 06/26/19, 18:30

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. 06/13/19, 14:33

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 06/13/19, 01:30

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 05/30/19, 14:16

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 05/30/19, 04:48

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 05/28/19, 14:29

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 05/28/19, 02:30

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

Tech 05/27/19, 14:12

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 05/27/19, 00:00

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 05/25/19, 15:02

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 05/24/19, 22:01

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 05/24/19, 18:57

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 05/24/19, 15:31

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 05/24/19, 15:20

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 05/23/19, 18:44

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 05/23/19, 18:15

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 05/22/19, 21:14

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 05/22/19, 11:36

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 05/22/19, 05:05

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 05/20/19, 15:57

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

U.S. 08/20/19, 23:43

"America is leading in space once again,” said Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at the sixth meeting of the National Space Council. Pence quoted President Donald J. Trump saying, “It is America's destiny ...

U.S. 08/17/19, 09:44

NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday, Aug. 16, to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville beat out Johnson Space Center in Houston, which managed the ...

U.S. 07/18/19, 17:46

U.S. senators gathered on Wednesday, July 17, in Washington to consider obstacles, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Chief Jim Bridenstine spelled out some of the challenges facing its Artemis moon program. Bridenstine started ...

U.S. 07/16/19, 21:53

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 ...

U.S. 06/18/19, 21:09

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 05/31/19, 16:42

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 05/22/19, 18:03

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 04/26/19, 16:46

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 04/26/19, 11:56

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 04/12/19, 15:54

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 04/12/19, 02:10

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 04/10/19, 14:24

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

Space 03/29/19, 12:18

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 03/13/19, 17:32

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 03/12/19, 23:55

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

Space 03/08/19, 10:43

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

Space 03/07/19, 02:45

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

Space 03/03/19, 20:17

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 03/03/19, 14:29

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

Space 03/02/19, 08:28

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" ...