Up to one million migrants could set off for Europe from Libya this year, the executive director of the EU's Frontex border agency told ANSA on Friday. Most of the migrants will seek to enter Europe through Italy. "We have to be ready to ad ...

If you recently installed or updated uTorrent on your PC, you may have have picked up an unwanted passenger: a Bitcoin miner called Epic Scale.

If you’re looking to add streaming capability to your TV without taking up extra shelf space, a streaming stick can be a good—and less expensive—alternative to the standard set-top box . Roku, Google and now Amazon all make sticks that let you watch ...

The US Army has finally revealed its plans of making use of small off-road vehicles instead of heavy tanks. According to the military officials, heavy tanks were becoming a hindrance.

Chinese researchers have discovered what they say is the first 'virological penicillin' - MIR2911, a molecule found in a Chinese herb called honeysuckle. Several previous studies have confirmed that the herb, usually consumed in the form of ...

Birds didn't evolve in one fell swoop from their dinosaur ancestors, suggests a newly constructed dinosaur family tree showing our feathery friends evolved very gradually, at first.

Former congressman Todd Akin (R-M0.) said Thursday that he used a poor choice of words in 2012 when he suggested "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy, but stood by his argument, asserting that he should have used slightly different wor ...

Researchers say recreation of Spanish flu strain highlights risk of pandemic, but critics say work puts global population at risk

“We are quite close to a declaration of independence. The main obstacle for now is the US,” Prof. Ofra Bengio, editor of the forthcoming book Kurdish Awakening: Nation-Building in a Fragmented Homeland told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

People confess to a lot of things on Facebook: their frustrations, bad habits, secret longings and new loves. A Florida man confessed to something much more sinister Thursday. He said he killed his wife. Derek Medina, 31, posted a picture of her bloo ...

This video, part of a series “Explaining Things To My Grandfather,” pits generational differences for comic results. After an explanation of the term, there is Wingmanning Practice, with a makeshift bar on an antique sideboard near a siver tea set i ...

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low-budget science-fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious. Its targets, fortunately, are amoebae, but the researche ...

A University of Toronto report based on two neural imaging studies that monitored brain activity has found individuals are more satisfied to get a reward from telling the truth rather than getting the same reward through deceit. These studies were pu ...

The company is thinking of using motion sensors and heart rate monitors to tailor playlists to your workouts, sleep schedules, and more.

Nuclear radiation at the boundaries of the stricken Fukushima power plant has now reached 8 times government safety guidelines, TEPCO has said. The firm has been struggling to contain radioactive leaks at Fukushima since the onset over the crisis in ...

Procrastinators, take note: If you've tried building self-discipline and you're still putting things off, maybe you need to try something different. One new approach: Check your mood.

Nearly 260,000 Americans enrolled in private health insurance plans through the federal and state-run exchanges in November, according to the latest Obamacare numbers.

Streaming music gets one thing right. Services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify are amazing for the consumer, and in that singular way, the music industry hasn’t been better in … probably ever. At long last, we have the celestial jukebox we dreamed of ...

The media prefers bad news stories – Africa is not singled out for that, but it does make life harder for those living abroad

It's the most frequent word in the English language, accounting for around four percent of all the words we write or speak. It's everywhere, all the time, so clearly it must be doing something important. Words have meaning. That's fund ...