Our Moon might not always be the dedicated companion to Earth that it is now. An international team of researchers has proposed a hypothetical new type of world it calls a “ploonet”: a former moon that escaped its host planet’s orbit and began circli ...

Apple’s Independent Repair Provider Program, which allows businesses to purchase genuine Apple parts to perform iPhone repairs without having to become a full-fledged Apple Authorized Service Provide (AASP), is expanding to Canada and 32 countries ac ...

The mainstream perception of gaming has always, to some extent, perceived those that look for an escapism into that fantastical dragon world as something reclusive. But why?

New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others

Go ahead and quit Facebook in disgust. But don't pretend Twitter represents some moral high ground. It's every bit as toxic as Facebook.

As with global affairs, nature has its pecking order. And in a contest between the bald eagle, America's national bird, and a common loon, which is featured on Canada's dollar coin, few would bet on the latter to come out the victor. But so ...

Delays in unemployment benefits also indirectly affect other In New Jersey, a 60-year-old programming language became the scapegoat for years of neglect after the state's unemployment website struggled to handle the flood of unemployment claims ...

We should envision a more resilient and sustainable food system, one that doesn’t commodify sentient life

A former pastor from Tennessee was convicted of raping his adopted teenage daughter. The usual sentence for a crime like this is a minimum of 72 years. But 41-year-old David Richards was given only 12 years of prison time by a Knox County judge. Givi ...

The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies are both undeniable and well-documented. This would be obvious if it weren’t for early indoctrination of these beliefs into children, which usually m ...

The European Union has called on Apple and Google to remove from the App Store contact tracing apps that don't have appropriate privacy safeguards

Racism against Asian Americans has surged as the coronavirus sweeps the U.S., with reports of hate crimes averaging approximately 100 per day, according to Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.). Speaking live on MSNBC on Tuesday, Chu discussed the increase in ass ...

(CNN)Shenzhen, in southeastern China, has become the first city in the country to ban the consumption of cats and dogs, the government announced Thursday. Under new rules which will come into effect May 1, the government said it will be illegal to ea ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) read the entirety of the Green New Deal on the House floor Wednesday, marking over a year since she first introduced the resolution. Republicans have sought to weaponize the ambitious climate proposal against De ...

American workers are feeling more isolated, and younger workers are experiencing loneliness more so than their older co-workers, according to a new Cigna study.

To meet the goals set in the Paris Climate Accord and avert climate catastrophe, UN scientists say nations must cut their greenhouse gas emissions to half of their 2018 levels by 2030 and aim for net zero emissions by 2050. That means cutting emissio ...

A well-controlled study out of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of more than 400 participants supports reducing salt intake as an important public health strategy to decrease incidence of hypertension.

Rail passengers could soon be leaving Sweden after dinner and arriving in London the next morning, under plans unveiled by the Swedish authorities. Trafikverket, Sweden's rail infrastructure manager, says overnight sleeper trains should run from ...

Billionaire Bill Gates wants rich people to pay higher taxes. "I've been disproportionately rewarded for the work I've done," the Microsoft founder and philanthropist said in a blog post titled "What I'm thinking about t ...

No one really knows what happens inside an atom.