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 ...

11:31, 18 May 2019

Miranda Haskie sits amid the glow of candles at her kitchen table as the sun sinks into a deep blue horizon silhouetting juniper trees and a nearby mesa.Her husband, Jimmie Long, Jr., fishes for the ...

08:01, 18 May 2019

The giant Amazon warehouse in Chesterfield County is constantly bustling with activity.At about 1.2 million square feet — roughly the size of 28 football fields — the fulfillment center stores, packages and ships what Amazon ...

16:26, 16 May 2019

Pinterest, fresh off its initial public offering, posted a loss for the first three months of the year that was larger than analysts were expecting, though revenue was slightly stronger. Its revenue forecast, though, was ...

16:37, 15 May 2019

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday to help protect the United States against foreign adversaries that are taking advantage of technological vulnerabilities to threaten U.S. communications systems. The order, which declared a national emergency ...

00:22, 15 May 2019

The challenge was to develop software that could easily be downloaded onto tablets that poor children around the world could use to teach themselves to read, write and do simple arithmetic. The incentive was $10 ...

17:09, 14 May 2019

The Latest on a facial recognition ban in San Francisco (all times local):3:10 p.m.San Francisco supervisors approved a ban on police using facial recognition technology, making it the first city in the U.S. with such ...

08:50, 14 May 2019

Disney is taking full control of Hulu, extending the reach of its streaming abilities.Disney said Tuesday that it's taking operational control of the streaming service immediately.NBCUniversal owns 33% of Hulu right now. According to the ...

00:49, 14 May 2019

San Francisco supervisors will vote on surveillance oversight legislation Tuesday that includes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by police and other city departments.If approved by the full board, San Francisco would ...

13:13, 13 May 2019

The leaders of France and New Zealand will make a joint push to eliminate acts of violent extremism from being shown online, in a meeting with tech leaders in Paris on Wednesday.French President Emmanuel Macron ...

09:48, 13 May 2019

The founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is wanted by prosecutors in two countries - the United States and Sweden - and he is currently imprisoned in a third - Britain. The tug-of-war stems ...

10:13, 11 May 2019

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is asking federal lawmakers to authorize the use of cellphone signal jamming technology after being bombarded by an overflow of smuggled cellular devices they say gangs use to commit crimes ...

08:28, 11 May 2019

An exhibition at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in suburban Detroit is offering a glimpse into the world of "Star Trek."Titled "Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds ," the exhibition runs through Sept. 2 ...

19:20, 10 May 2019

The X Prize Foundation is developing a contest for technology that can detect and extinguish wildfires before they grow too large.X Prize Foundation chairman Peter Diamandis (dia-MOND-us) made the announcement Friday at the Near Future ...

14:05, 10 May 2019

The University of Illinois is planning to name its Micro and Nanotechnology Lab after an engineering visionary who created the first practical LED. Professor Emeritus Nick Holonyak Jr., a UI engineering alumnus, found a new alloy ...

11:26, 10 May 2019

British billionaire Richard Branson and his space-tourism company Virgin Galactic announced new steps Friday toward offering thrill rides into the low reaches of space for paying passengers, with the company immediately starting to move personnel ...

09:34, 10 May 2019

The French and the Americans are working together again on a D-Day project — this time to give museum visitors the opportunity to travel back in time and experience the milestone World War II invasion ...

00:41, 10 May 2019

Buffalo kindergarten teacher Maria Spurlock was still struggling after trying for more than a week to get a reading app working on all of her classroom iPads. When she learned her building had a new ...

17:06, 09 May 2019

A disability rights nonprofit group in Oregon filed a letter of complaint Thursday with the city of Portland over new rules about an electric scooter pilot program.In its letter, Disability Rights Oregon said Portland's decision ...

04:42, 09 May 2019

Amid the hum and heat of Berlin's Reuter thermal power station stands a shining contraption that looks out of place in the decades-old machine hall.Its silver pipes and vats contain a substance that Vattenfall, the ...

06:56, 26 Apr 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 ...

10:54, 12 Apr 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, ...

21:10, 11 Apr 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 ...

09:24, 10 Apr 2019

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

07:18, 29 Mar 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 ...

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 ...

09:58, 19 May 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering a former tannery to dig contaminated sediment and excavate soil from areas in western Michigan after finding high pollution levels where the shoemaker once operated.The EPA sent a letter ...

20:15, 17 May 2019

Mexico's capital has lifted a pollution alert in effect since Wednesday saying the concentration of tiny particles in the air had fallen significantly.The environmental commission for the metropolitan area of some 20 million residents says ...

18:14, 17 May 2019

Proponents of New Mexico's energy industry say emails exchanged among environmentalists and a key member of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's cabinet represent a conflict of interest as the state was creating landmark legislation that set ...

13:22, 17 May 2019

Elected officials in rural Nye County say they support moving forward with a long-studied but mothballed national nuclear waste repository in Nevada, unlike their counterparts in urban Las Vegas, approximately 90 miles away. But the Las ...

16:22, 16 May 2019

The fear of poachers stealing oysters from polluted waters and making consumers sick has long thwarted efforts to grow them in New Jersey and use their natural ability to filter and improve water quality.A proposed ...

13:45, 15 May 2019

Environmentalists and community activists asked Colorado regulators on Wednesday to stop issuing new oil and gas drilling permits until they rewrite the rules under a new law that makes public safety and the environment the ...

12:06, 15 May 2019

Lawyers for a company that lost a bid to build a project to bring hydropower from Canada to markets in southern New England told the New Hampshire Supreme Court that a state committee that made ...

11:52, 15 May 2019

Mexico is facing an extremely heavy season of brush and forest fires, with 4,425 blazes recorded so far this year.The federal Environment Department said Wednesday that 3,800 firefighters are combatting an average of about 100 ...

17:03, 12 May 2019

Mexico City's government warned people Sunday to remain indoors as forest and brush fires carpeted the metropolis in a smoky haze that has alarmed even many of those accustomed to living with nagging air pollution.Outdoor ...

09:29, 11 May 2019

Driving along a deeply rutted levee, Heath Smith points to a basketball, picnic basket and pink Big Wheel.He drives past a massive porch. A boat and a semi's missing trailer sit up ahead. He's found ...

10:50, 10 May 2019

Wisconsin's new Democratic attorney general has used his first four months in office to shift the state Department of Justice to a more liberal footing, pleasing supporters by nullifying his Republican predecessor's attempts to kill ...

15:08, 09 May 2019

New Mexico's top prosecutor is demanding that the U.S. Air Force close a publicly accessible lake at Holloman Air Force Base, saying Thursday the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to ...

12:35, 09 May 2019

Wolves should be removed from the federal endangered species list throughout Washington state, Washington Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind wrote in a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released this week."This is ...

22:57, 08 May 2019

The Latest on the California Coastal Commission fining a hotel developer (all times local):8:55 p.m.The California Coastal Commission has fined a developer a record $15.58 million for building a high-priced hotel after obtaining a permit ...

18:24, 08 May 2019

Eight former Brazilian environment ministers are lashing out at far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, saying his administration is "wrecking" environmental protections.Gathered Wednesday at the University of Sao Paulo, the former officials issued a blistering statement on ...

18:21, 07 May 2019

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who is seeking a path to the White House on the message of climate change, signed a measure Tuesday that makes his state the fourth in the nation that has established ...

12:40, 03 May 2019

New Jersey will spend $10 million on projects to prevent storm water pollution from entering the ecologically fragile Barnegat Bay, authorities said Friday.The state Department of Environmental Protection announced grants to nonprofit groups, local governments, ...

08:57, 02 May 2019

7th session of Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services will culminate with presentation of huge report when the meeting concludes on May 4

04:05, 29 Apr 2019

When Alfred Brownell arrived in a remote Liberian village, the surrounding tropical rainforest had been leveled by bulldozers. Burial grounds were uprooted, religious shrines were desecrated and a stream people depended upon for water was ...

10:36, 27 Apr 2019

Scientists want to use an unconventional method to remove pollution from former General Motors properties near Lansing where an underground plume of chemicals is creeping toward drinking water wells.The Lansing State Journal reports that the ...

09:20, 22 Apr 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 ...

09:53, 09 Apr 2019

How many people have had the feeling or the impression that they have seen and done things before, in another time? The idea of reincarnation follows from this experience, which is that at death we ...

10:38, 05 Apr 2019

In Christian religion and costumes, the star of Bethlehem is known as the astronomical guide followed by the Three Wise Men who welcomed the birth of Jesus. Throughout history, as scientific research and theories have changed ...

08:08, 03 Apr 2019

Extraordinary images of what was found inside a 2,500-year-old tooth belonging to the historical Buddha are making rounds on the internet. What is truly fascinating about this tooth are the ‘sarira’ – small relics in ...

06:23, 01 Apr 2019

Near-death experiences are an unexpectedly common phenomenon. For centuries, their occurrence and subsequent lessons have been recorded across the globe, from ancient Greece and Egypt to Buddhist and Zen philosophy in the Far East. Their ...

21:45, 21 Mar 2019

According to the Bible, David managed to beat the giant Goliath with a sling, thus becoming the second Hebrew monarch. The truth of this myth, which might be difficult to assimilate for many people, was ...

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 ...

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 ...