It's the third major melt event of the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer, NASA says.

Have you ever wondered how often your smart speaker accidentally activates itself? A study from Northeastern University tried to find out.

In July 2018 (when we first published this piece), there was a minor uproar when Kardashian scion Kylie Jenner, who is all of 22, appeared on the cover of Forbes’s 60 richest self-made women issue. As many people pointed out, Jenner’s success would h ...

After much anticipation and an unexpected two-day delay, NASA and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter finally launched on Sunday, February 9 at 11:03 p.m. Eastern. Footage captured by NASA and the ESA reveal the spacecraft's fit ...

After the ACLU said a community college in Michigan was violating its students’ First Amendment rights, the school partially relented. Amidst a growing nationwide resistance to facial recognition on college campuses, school administrators at Michigan ...

In brief: Nvidia in its latest earnings report this week said it generated $3.11 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020 that ended on January 26. That’s an increase of 41 percent over the $2.21 billion brought in during the sam ...

In 1997, leaders of industrialized nations committed to the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The document, which came into effect 15 years ago, set the tone for slowing the march of climate change.

I've had a solid hour with the Galaxy Z Flip, going over its every curve and getting acquainted with this new form factor. Here are my initial takeaways.

Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton recently teamed up with Manatee County Animal Services to help spread the word about adoptable dogs. One of the dogs pictured on a beer can, Day Day, is going to her forever home, but she wasn't adopted.

The U.S. Department of Interior essentially banned Chinese-made drones and drone parts because of the fear of these drones’ potential to be used for spying. The new no-fly rule is explicitly aimed at foreign drones and the only exceptions would be fo ...

A Saudi man infected with a deadly new virus from the same family as SARS has died, becoming the ninth patient in the world to be killed the disease which has so far infected 15, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.

He was known around town as the friendly homeless man who would happily chat about anything -- the weather, sports or whatever passersby wanted to talk about. But when John Meade died in St. Augustine, Florida, late last year, police realized he had ...

Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space—and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behavior and surroundings of a black hole itself. Most black holes are too small on the sky for us to determi ...

The Witcher is the next big thing in fantasy shows now that Game Of Thrones is over. Indeed, many dubious comparisons between the two wildly different programs have been made in the wake of The Witcher’s release. The two shows are almost nothing like ...

Ozzy Osbourne has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. The singer made the revelation while being interviewed alongside wife and manager Sharon Osbourne on US TV show Good Morning America.

No one had a well-defined plan to send microfilm specialists to war when Franklin Roosevelt agreed to established the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC). The agency initially struggled to gain traction. yet ...

And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.

A Chick-fil-A employee in Wilmington, North Carolina, has caught the attention of his community with his infectiously upbeat customer service and bright attitude. A regular customer took video of employee Jeremiah Murrill one day as she placed her dr ...

Carbon Engineering's groundbreaking plant is one of many projects hoping to help in the fight against climate change by turning its main driver — carbon dioxide — into a useful product that can be profitably removed from the atmosphere.

Climate breakdown could render investments held by millions of people “worthless”, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England has warned. Mark Carney suggested the financial sector had not yet woken up to the looming crisis and was “not moving fast ...