Gaining admission to Oxford, the prestigious British university thought to be better than pretty much every American Ivy League school besides Harvard, is a major achievement at any age. However, the fact that Joshua Beckford attended the school at o ...

A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km-high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. A recurrent feature, the cloud is made up of water ice, but despite appearances it is not a plume linked to volcanic activity. Instead, the curious str ...

Images are emerging online of Comet NEOWISE—a spectacular comet from the outer Solar System on a once-in-6,800 years journey into the inner Solar System—that also show Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. An image created by Daniel López of El C ...

Apple is being sued for allegedly refusing to help those who have fallen victim to a iTunes gift card scam. An 11-count class action lawsuit has been filed against the company. Apple is accused of lying when it says that there is no way to trace or r ...

The U.S. and China are also launching their own Mars missions — expected to reach the planet's orbit around the same time as the Hope probe.

Scientists documented four new species of walking shark that they say have developed the ability to walk very recently. Walking sharks use their fins to physically walk along the seafloor rather th…

The developers of Paper Mario have revealed that they are no longer allowed to make characters "that touch on the Mario universe," or modify existing Mario characters. In an interview with VGC, Nintendo veteran Kensuke Tanabe was asked abou ...

Burger King is staging an intervention with its cows. The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovine contributions to climate change. By tweaking their diet, Burger King said Tuesday that it belie ...

Apple's upcoming iPhone 12 models could ship with a new Lightning to USB-C cable that includes a braided fabric design, according to leaked...

Actors who prove effective ambassadors for the People’s Republic may see their careers rise, while those who test Chinese authorities can face negative consequences, even if they are stars.

From airlines to paper mills, the job news is grim, and there are growing signs it won't be getting better anytime soon. On Thursday, the Labor Department reported nearly 2.4 million new applications for state and federal unemployment benefits l ...

Zephyr Teachout’s new book lays bare the private legal system that shores up their immense power—and hides it from public view.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp accused his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, of conducting extra-marital affairs and lying about him beating her up when he appeared in a London court on Tuesday to pursue legal action against a British tabloid newspaper.

Black market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary “bush” refineries hidden deep in the creeks and swamps of the Niger delta is less polluting than the highly toxic diesel and petrol that Europe exports to Nigeria, new laboratory analysis has foun ...

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“We may not need 40 different choices of toilet paper.” U.S. companies spent the past decades trying to please everyone. The pandemic made that impossible, and now some no longer plan to try.

A story for my granddaughter about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.

The Data Dividend Project is advocating for data property rights

The wealthiest American households are keeping a tight grip on their purse strings even as their lower-income counterparts are spending a lot more freely when they emerge from weeks of lockdown. That decline in spending by the wealthy could limit the ...