Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They're almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years old (which means life coul ...

In the fourth and final story of this exclusive Mongabay series, entomologists around the world offer far ranging solutions to curb and reverse the great insect die-off.

The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims’ relatives who have been taking a more aggressive ...

Domino's will begin delivering pizza using self-driving robots in the Houston area later this year, the company announced on Monday. The company will use delivery vehicles from the Silicon Valley startup Nuro. “Nuro’s vehicles are specially desi ...

Facebook is still taking a battering from some of its harshest critics, as two high-profile voices spoke out against the company once again last week. Tim Cook gave a commencement speech at Stanford on Sunday in which he savaged Silicon Valley giants ...

Getting an app off the ground is hard, but following the numbers and investing in acquisition channels that reliably pay off will keep you ahead of the curve. Here are four ways to identify the right app advertising networks and maximize your return ...

Scientists are still debating when and where dogs were domesticated, but there’s one thing most of them agree on: Early canines were working animals. Dogs evolved from gray wolves earlier than 15,000 years ago—before humans settled down in permanent ...

About 37% of Americans attend the church at least once per week, a recent study has shown. However, would this number decrease if they knew their pastors wore sneakers that are worth thousands of dollars? A 29-year-old man name Tyler has set out to f ...

Newspapers’ sites had until recently been among the few major English-language outlets still regularly accessible in mainland China.

Rafael Nadal maintains his stranglehold on the French Open by beating Dominic Thiem in four sets to lift a 12th men's singles title.

The researchers have determined that gum disease (gingivitis) plays a decisive role in whether a person developes Alzheimer´s or not. “We discovered DNA-based proof that the bacteria causing gingivitis can move from the mouth to the brain,” says rese ...

The number of whales spotted in the waters off New York City has increased by 540 percent in the last eight years, according to researchers. In 2010, experts from non-profit Gotham Whale identified just five whales in local waters across the whole ye ...

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died. He was 89. Gell-Mann died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His death was confirmed by the Sa ...

Almost eight in 10 Canadians say the Catholic Church has done a poor job of handling clerical sexual abuse and more than half of practising Catholics agree, a new poll says. The Angus Reid survey questioned 1,611 Canadians about how the decade of abu ...

Smartphone sales declined 3% year-on-year (YoY) and 20% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in Europe during Q1 2019, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Pulse service. The findings of the research reveal that growth in smartphone sales ...

Creatures from migratory eels and other fish species to insects to birds tap into the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, sometimes many thousands of miles. But so far, evidence has been scant for any such magnetic sense in humans. Now, research sugg ...

On Nov 12, 2019, Disney+ is expected to launch in the United States and threaten Netflix’s market dominance. In order to maintain its competitive advantage, Netflix could feasibly integrate blockchain technology into its service. In an article publis ...

The "vast majority" of people commenting, sharing and liking anti-vaccination information on Facebook are women, a new study finds. Researchers dug into the world of anti-vaccination people — better known as anti-vaxxers — by looking at dat ...

Navy F-18 fighter jets have encountered Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon — once commonly referred to as UFOs — off the East Coast of the United States.

Some species of squids, crabs and octopuses may be losing their vision in Earth's oxygen-starved oceans.