On the final day of protest, dozens of climate youth activists were arrested as they blocked an intersection near the U.S. Capitol, stressing the need for immediate climate action.

The first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book was published in October 1979. Fans are looking back at how the series has endured in popularity and why it's still relevant.

Leila, 29, filed for divorce from Sean, 61, on Friday (October 15) in Los Angeles County Superior Court, according to TMZ. The couple started dating back in 2016 and they tied the knot in July 2020 during the pandemic in a private ceremony attended just by family and close friends. It’s not clear what led to the split.

Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian. But Chappelle’s new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back.

Facebook has had a nightmare week. It started with revelations that the social media giant had been putting “profits before people”—something Facebook vehemently denies. Then, suddenly, came Monday’s outage of all Facebook services—Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram—as a result of a misconfiguration. Facebook’s reputational nightmare worsened as the week ended, with another outage affecting some users on Friday.

Johnathan Hladik was on his phone, calling one butcher after another, desperate to find a slaughterhouse that had space for a few of the Berkshire hogs that he raises on his family farm in eastern Nebraska. It was spring 2020, the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the coronavirus was rolling through the country’s massive slaughterhouses, where employees worked in crowded, indoor spaces at a time when protective gear like face masks was scarce.

His friend and confidant Susan Berman was fatally shot in her home shortly before she was going to be interviewed by police.

The left-wing opposition in Norway has won the country's general election, preliminary results show. Early results indicate the end of the centre-right government's eight-year rule under Prime Minister Erna Solberg, following a campaign dominated by the future of the oil industry.

Try as we might, the most advanced synthetic materials pale in comparison to super-strong biological compounds like spider silk and muscle fibers. On that second count, researchers may be closer to growing usable amounts of muscle fiber that can be used in place of fabrics like cotton, silk, and even Kevlar. This could lead to clothing made from real muscle. That might sound like an unsettling option, but the fibers aren’t what you’re imagining.

Tesla has opened a sales, service, and delivery center in New Mexico on Native American land, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The move allows it to bypass legislation that bans automakers from selling their vehicles straight to consumers in the state, rather than through third-party dealers, the publication reported. Nambé Pueblo in Santa Fe County isn't subject to the state law.

A recent Mars study discovered areas with lesser radiation for houses on mars, which is a major hazard to life, but is this enough to make life bearable there?

Jobs that help prepare the US for the changing climate will pay a high hourly wage, President Joe Biden said after touring storm damage in New York and New Jersey on Tuesday. "I think of one word when I think of climate change: jobs, good-paying jobs," he said. "Not $7 or $12 or $15, but $45, $50 an hour, plus healthcare. That's what is needed."

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers recently completed a study that has the potential to improve cancer treatment for colorectal cancer and melanoma by using nanotechnology to deliver chemotherapy in a way that makes it more effective against aggressive tumors. The findings were published today in Nature Nanotechnology.

Sarah Harding has died at the age of 39 just a year after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The talented Girls Aloud singer slipped away just weeks after revealing the disease was terminal and telling fans that Christmas 2020 was likely to have been her last. Her mum broke the news today on Instagram.

A new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely to bolster critics’ long-standing arguments that the company’s algorithms fuel the spread of misinformation over more trustworthy sources. The forthcoming peer-reviewed study by researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France has found that from August 2020 to January 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount of likes, shares, and interactions ...

Staged animal rescue videos featuring brutal violence and cruelty are racking up millions of views on YouTube

More than 4,400 exoplanets have been discovered to date, and in the hunt for whether there may be life out there most of our attention has been focused on Earth-like worlds. But now, astronomers have defined a new class of exoplanet called “Hycean” worlds that could be a promising place to find signs of life.