At least 44 people have been killed in California a result of the wildfires that have burned more than 100,000 acres of land in the state. The most vulnerable populations, including the elderly and people with disabilities, are at the highest risk of perishing in the fires, which were made more likely by climate change that exacerbated dryness and tinder availability in fire-prone areas.

A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices. The “bionic mushroom” was covered with bacteria capable of producing electricity and strands of graphene that collected the current. Shining a light on the structure activated the bacteria’s ability to photosynthesise, and as the cells harvested this glow they generated a small amount of electricity known as a “photocurrent”.

The US Department of Justice said the agents had hacked into commercial jet fan firms based in Suzhou, ChinaThe charges come weeks after the US’ ‘unprecedented’ extradition of a Chinese spy from Belgium

A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from McGill University, provide a valuable new benchmark for monitoring biodiversity across Canada’s vast northern expanses. Using traps to sample 12 selected sites from Labrador to the Northwest Territories, McGill PhD student Sarah Loboda and Prof. Chris Buddle collected 23,000 adult spiders representing mo...

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In a recent interview, Tim Draper, a prominent venture capitalist famous for his strategic investments, gave his opinions about regulations in the cryptocurrency space. Significantly his major focus was on two topics, namely, Japan taking an open approach for the sector in general and also China’s decision to make Bitcoin [BTC] illegal in the nation.

Walmart's NYC-based innovation center is experimenting with a cashier-less store concept called Project Kepler, which "aims to reimagine the in-store shopping experience with the help of technologies like computer vision," Recode reports.

Trump denies climate change on “60 Minutes,” and yet his administration says climate facts are indisputable in court. Also, strange things are afoot between Ben Carson and Ryan Zinke’s scandals. President Trump relaunched his climate change denial campaign on 60 Minutes this week, telling Lesley Stahl...

At Liberty University, students and faculty have faith in the president to help ‘create generations of rightwing Christians’ – but some are uneasy. hree times a week, 15,000 students stream into the Vines Center, a huge silver-domed building on the campus of Liberty University for “convocation”, an intoxicating mix of prayer, political rally and entertainment. Thousands more watch a live stream of the event.

Residents in an apartment block awoke to find a note had been stuck to their door using several knives. The piece of A4 paper - bearing an "illegible" message scrawled in an unknown language - was found in David Place, St Helier, Jersey. A picture shows three blades driven through the note, with a fourth plunged into the door itself. Police said it was unclear who the message was for, but there was no history of threats on the building.

A Montreal man was cleaning out his wardrobe and readying some clothes for donation when he found a forgotten lottery ticket hidden in an old jacket — a ticket worth $1.75 million. Gregorio De Santis hadn't planned on cleaning out the wardrobe, but said his sister encouraged him to get the job done.

Morals are slippery things. We all claim to have them, but somehow we misplace them at the oddest of times. We go to work, scheme against our colleagues, lie to the occasional customer and, during a coffee break, wail at the immorality of a politician or college football coach. Some might mutter, though, that morals are like pornographic movies.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released mugshots of the seven suspects arrested in connection to a $1 million robbery scheme targeting Apple Stores. These crimes allegedly hit 19 counties, including the thefts in Santa Rosa, Emeryville, and Corte Madera over the last month. The Apple Store in Fresno was also hit.

The second season of Disney Channel's Ducktales premieres on Oct. 20 — and fans of the show can be assured they'll get more of Huey, Dewey and Louie in 2019. The cable channel has ordered a third season of the animated series ahead of the season two premiere. Stars Danny Pudi (Huey), Ben Schwartz (Dewey) and Bobby Moynihan (Louie) made the announcement in the video below, with a bit of help from co-star David Tennant (Scrooge McDuck).

From making biofuels to eating up harmful plastics, fungi could help us build a greener planet. Fungi could not just help rid the planet of plastic by degrading it, but by making it obsolete it, too. Research in the Kew report suggests that naturally made materials using fungal mycelia are being used increasingly often instead of more harmful materials such as polystyrene and leather.

Jim Cramer discusses Advanced Micro Devices' meteoric rise with the executive that made it happen, Dr. Lisa Su.