President Donald Trump took a President's Day swipe at his predecessor, Barack Obama, as each sought credit Monday for the U.S. economy. Mocking an earlier Obama tweet as a "con job," Trump blasted Obama for "now trying to take cr ...

For the first time, a team of marine biology and environmental genomics researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have demonstrated that epigenetic modifications in reef-building corals can be ...

A boat, like a piece of writing, is first of all conceived as a structure. Whether it is a cargo ship, an ocean liner, a ferry, or a pleasure boat, each has a primary function, a part to play. Its purpose defines its size, its shape, and its overall ...

It was just last November that we heard how a group of companies used a hydrogen fuel cell drone to deliver medical samples across a 43-mile (69-km) stretch of ocean. Now, some of the same players are planning to use the same drone for long-distance ...

One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris’s lab was scanning the brains of very old rats when he found that one could see, hear, smell, and feel just like the other rats, but it was walking around with basically no brain—and likely had been since birth.

SpaceX, Elon Musk's powerhouse of a space exploration company, could be on course to seriously compromise humanity's study of outer space. Among its many rocket launches and plans to colonize Mars, SpaceX has a more Earthling-focused projec ...

Preliminary data show the scale at which the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the Chinese economy. At a special press conference on Sunday, Chinese officials indicated the disease will remain an issue for the near future. The immediate impact was vi ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request did not provide any scientific evidence to back Administrator Andrew Wheeler's claims that the consequences of climate change were still “50 to ...

Rocksteady hasn't released a game since 2015 (not counting Batman: Arkham VR), when it delivered Batman: Arkham Knight, the final game in its Batman: Arkham trilogy. However, not only has the UK studio not released a proper game since then, it h ...

To prove it is safe for astronauts, the company will test its Crew Dragon capsule’s rescue system.

The seismic rumblings of the Philippines’ second most active volcano hold clues to what it might do

The new decade opened with some intriguing news: the journal Nature reported that artificial intelligence was better at identifying breast cancers on mammograms than radiologists. Researchers at Google Health teamed up with academic medical centers i ...

Scientists have developed a torque sensor made with a nanoparticle that can spin more than 300 billion times a minute.

A United States–funded mobile carrier that offers phones via the Lifeline Assistance program is selling a mobile device pre-installed with not one, but two malicious applications. Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile offers the UMX U686CL phone as the ...

The Galaxy Chromebook is total overkill — and I would like one now, please. The thinnest Chromebook ever, this laptop boasts a gorgeous 4K AMOLED display, a powerful 10th gen Core i5 CPU and a flexible 2-in-1 design with a built-in pen. But is this t ...

Yes, one year, not one month. If you expect to lose 15 kilograms in one month and without any effort, then you may have to be over 150 kilograms. Even then you will find it struggling. Having that out of the way, I want to start this article by sayin ...

The new year is a revival of hope on the cryptocurrency market. Of course, many analysts give reasons why BTC could be worth a lot of dollars by the end of 2020. But why would this happen? Let’s consider why the Bitcoin exchange price would rise at a ...

Abigail Disney remembers the moment, two decades ago, when she no longer wanted to fly on her family’s private plane. Disney is the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, who founded the Disney company with his younger brother, Walt, in 1923, and her father ...

In mid-December, a month and a half into protests that have crippled Lebanon and placed its political class in the dock, a priest caused a stir by telling his congregation to start stockpiling food. The coming three years would be difficult, the cler ...

Nasa wants to send humans to Mars one day, but do we have the engines to get us there?