The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since February and is finally ready to attempt a touchdown on the red planet.

On sites like Amazon, there are thousands of books seemingly written by bots – and many of those are used to dupe audiobook narrators.

Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi, who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter, has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master.

Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin, citing concerns over the cryptocurrency’s effect on the climate, the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Musk wrote on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden is set to announce additional steps toward promoting vaccine accessibility, including free rides on Uber and Lyft to vaccination sites, to help meet the administration's goal of 70% of adults getting at least one coronavirus shot by July 4.

Although the fairy tale of the wicked stepmother is a tale as old as time, the effects of blending children with their new stepfamilies may not be as grim as once thought. In fact, new research shows that stepchildren are not at a disadvantage compared to their peers from single-parent households and actually experience better outcomes than their halfsiblings — good news for the more than 113 million Americans that are part of a steprelationship.

Finland is the only EU country where homelessness in the decrease and only less than 0.01 percent of the population doesn't have homes. The country's government's aim is to completely end homelessness by 2027.

The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds. Concerns about the environment and working practices in the mining industry have led to growing demand for alternatives to mined diamonds.

The reason Epic’s Fortnite got thrown out of the Apple App Store was that Epic rogue-updated Fortnite to offer a payment mechanism that bypassed Apple’s 30 percent cut of all in-app transactions. Apple booted Fortnite for violating its rules. Epic threw an… epic… hissy fit about this, culminating in the trial starting this week. While Epic has cobbled together an alliance called the Coalition for App Fairness — along with Spotify, Match Group, Basecamp, and Tile — there’s one more ...

Verizon is exiting the media business, announcing Monday that it's selling the unit for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

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COVID misinformation is flourishing on Facebook, especially in languages other than English.

The Ingenuity drone completes the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.

Forests cover 70% of the country, but many argue the Swedish model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity...

Beijing has knocked New York out of the top spot for cities with the most billionaires. The Chinese capital added an incredible 32 billionaires to its ranks last year, bringing the city's total to 100, according to Hurun Report's latest global rich list. New York, which has led the ranking for years, has 95 billionaires.

Saks Fifth Avenue has committed to stop selling products made of animal fur by the end of 2022. This includes both brand partner and private label merchandise sold online and in stores.

"Jeopardy!" fell another 2% in Dr. Oz's first week as guest host, with the Sony game show posting its lowest numbers since the holiday break. 

Scientists at NASA have reported an exciting detection by its Insight lander on Mars - mysterious rumblings coming from the interior of the planet. The researchers believe the seismic events may be caused by a sudden release of energy from the planet's interior, but the nature of that release remains unknown and puzzling.