The price of U.S. crude oil collapsed to below zero for the first time on record, falling to negative $37 per barrel and forcing oil producers to pay buyers to take the product off their hands. As The Guardian reported last week, 160 million barrels ...

The coronavirus outbreak has provoked a string of unsettling sights, such as the sudden widespread use of masks, shuttered businesses and deserted streets. Another unusual phenomenon is also playing out in the skies – near-empty airplanes flying thro ...

People in the UK were stockpiling novels and home learning books last week as they prepared for a spell in isolation, sales figures suggest. Sales of fiction rose by a third, while children's education went up 234% to the third highest level on ...

The tiny skull of what is thought to be the smallest known dinosaur that lived during the age of the dinosaurs has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar.

The man who hacked into a criminal call centre to expose scammers at work.

Leaked design plans reveal that the company is thinking about putting bright red and orange labels on false tweets by politicians and public figures.

Some of the world’s most ancient rainforests lie in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. Continually wet since the time of the dinosaurs, these forests once covered the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, vestiges harbor many endemic and ...

Traveling to Norway, you’ll be forgiven in thinking its a futuristic eco warriors dreamland. After all, it is the World’s leader in renewable energies. Green technology startups where CEOs tell you to pull up a bean bag are growing at an unprecedente ...

Analysis shows that Steam's VR-connected population is growing, hitting a record high of 1.3 million in December

Vulvas, psychics, and junk science, oh my. I watched so you don't have to.

In this waking nightmare, the Trump administration has filled the parks department with anti-public land sycophants

Personality traits, identified as neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, can predict a wide range of important outcomes.

Anker’s PowerPort Atom PD 1 and RavPower’s 45W GaN charger are an early preview of the charging tech of the future

Bone found in Arabian desert dates back 90,000 years, challenging view that we migrated into Eurasia 60,000 years ago

Climate-change activists blocked Geneva airport’s private jet terminal on Saturday in protest against what they said is an absurd form of transport. Geneva is a hub for the private jets of the rich and powerful who either live nearby or travel to the ...

A thick grey smog choked New Delhi for the fifth day Saturday, adding to a mounting pollution health crisis, but retired naval commander 

Scientists computed a zoo of millions of alternate genetic polymer molecular structures, giving context for why biology encodes information how it does, and providing potential leads for new drugs and a guide to searches for extraterrestrial biology.

I was born with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which causes extreme pain. My doctor thought I'd never get off the painkillers.

"Transparency for the taxpayer."

One potential buyer has expressed interest, but success is far from assured.